In 1935 the SMAE again received boxed Wakefields from America. Team USA consisted of Frank Zaic, of NY, NY, who was a 1934 Team member, Donald Mertens, Vernon Boehie, Ralph Kummer, and Gordon S Light, the "Unofficial 1932 Wakefield Champion", who placed third in 1933, and whose Wakefield was...
Prior to the end of the 1933 flying season the SMAE did some serious fiddling with the Wakefield Cup Rules. First they deleted the "Any Type of Power Rule", restricting power to "Rubber Power Only", then they restricted the wing area to be between "190 & 200 sq. inches", then they placed a...
The SMAE had acted, the Wakefield Cup was back in Great Britain, but a cloud of controversy surrounded the Crown of the Reigning Champion, Gordon S Light. The September 10, 1932 Wakefield Cup Event, held at Atlantic City NJ, USA, was declared null and void, "No Contest", by SMAE, and the Wakefield...
The entire world was now in the midst of a "Great Depression", financing aeromodelling events was not on any of the financial agendas of any corporation in the world including BP. In fact the Airplane Model League of America (AMLA) which up until 1932 had conducted the US Free Flight Nationals lost...
This year for the first time in the short history of the Wakefield International Cup the venue would be located in a foreign country. This necessitated Great Britain to send their Wakefield team aeromodels to the United States of America in boxes, another first. The contest was scheduled for June...
The third Wakefield International Cup contest was again held at Halton, Aerodrome, England, on Saturday, July 19th. Again this year three Americans came to England, having won the US Nationals Grand Prizes of all expenses paid trips to Europe, but this time, they came with Wakefields to compete...