The Czechoslovakian Peoples Federation working with the Aero Club Czechoslovakia put up the funds to conduct the FFWC for the first time at Sazena, a small village near Prague, August 12 to 15. On hand to defend his F1B WC title was the popular Dane, Thomas Koster. The Europeans were making a...
The venue this year was mid-Finland at Kauhava for the FFWC format consisting of the three FAI Free Flight events: glider F1A, rubber F1B, and power F1C. The village of Kauhava, has a population of only 10,000, and I am sure they felt a little overwhelmed by the shear magnitude of feeding, housing...
The twenty-sixth meeting of The Wakefield Cup Event took place at Wiener Neustadt Aerodrome, an ex-MIG base used by the Soviet Air Force, and the original home of the Messerschmitt Fighter. The shops where the Messerschmitt was produced stand on the edge of the aerodrome as skeletal reminders that...
This year's gathering for the Wakefield Cup event was held at the Allgau area of Bavaria, near the village of Leutkirch, in Southern Germany. Twenty-one nations, represented by 61 contestants, were on hand to compete for the Cup. Team USA, led by Pete Sotich, the President of the AMA, included the...
The venue for this year's Wakefield Cup contest was Brienne Le Chateau, France. This year again the Wakefield Cup event would go it alone, without Power, and Glider. The World Championships format was just too expensive for any nation to sponsor this year. This would also be the last time the...
Now that the Wakefield Cup Rules had been completely "modernized" in 1957(the ROG and the cross section requirements having been deleted) there appeared a new species of Wakefield on the Continent. This new typology was especially originated by the innovative aeromodel designs of George Benedek, of...