How to set a Record  1959 Frantsek Dvorak, 40, Czechoslovakia
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 Wakefield Cup event
would be held annually. From now on the rubber (F1B) contest
would be held in the combined format with Power (F1C), and
Glider (F1A), every other year in the "World Championships". The
editor of Aeromodeller, Ron Moulton, is quoted in "Scatter" a
Southern California Aero Team news letter, No33, in December
1991, as saying in a 1969 paper he gave concerning the FAI/CIAM
1957 rules changes "...as far as we Englishmen were concerned,
because when we gave the Wakefield Trophy for World Championship
administration by the FAI, one of the original conditions was
that the trophy for that particular meeting should be held
annually. Clearly this con