With the changing Wakefield Rules the FAI/CIAM had put an end to the "Vintage Era". All that now remained of the original SMAE rules was the old ROG requirement, and even that would be gone by 1957 along with the influence of the SMAE to the Wakefield International Cup Event itself. The rules were...
Jamijarvi, Finland, at the Finnish Gliding School, July 20 to 24, the venue for the Worlds most famous Free Flight Aeromodelling Event: TheWakefield International Cup to be officiated by the Suomen Ilmailiito. The Contest was to be conducted at night, during the phenomenon of the "Midnight Sun"...
Cranfield Aerodrome, midsummer almost everywhere else in Europe, but on Sunday, July 31, 1949, it was a cold, blustery windy day. A perfect day for flying Wakefields, at least according to the "Local Aeromodellers." The "breeze" as they classify it, cut loose, on the day before the contest during...
World War II was at last over and behind us. It had been nine years since the last Wakefield Cup event, the reigning Wakefield Champion Richard Korda is now 33 years old. Nine years ago Fred Bower of Canada who had placed second on only two flights in the 1939 Wakefield Cup Contest when he was 19...
How could it be? On the first flight of the event he won it all! Even he said it. Richard Korda said it when he was 79 years old, by now a Parkinsons patient, speaking on an audio tape made on September 6, 1994 by Loren Dietrich "...they made too big of an issue of the flight in the Wakefield. One...
July 31, 1938 at the Caudron Aerodrome, Guyancourt, outside of Paris, France, was a day of light breezes, and sunshine. The French hosts were now following a Wakefield tradition of honoring their guests with accommodations and contest preparations which were "par excellence". Contestants from 14...