Alex kubes12/25/2022 ![]() ![]() Although now a speciality of a small group of manufactures in the Eastern Block nations, the techniques of production would spread world wide, to absorb the total production of Wakefield aeromodels. These composites: carbon fibre, Kevlar, and fibreglass could be moulded, and vacuum formed by production processes to make components for motor tubes, tail booms, wings, stabilizers, rudders, and propellers. Composite materials were now replacing balsa wood because of their stable characteristics in all temperatures, light weight, strength, and production capabilities. They depended upon hard woods, and steel wire, covered with fabric. Ehrhardt's competition at that time believed that balsa wood was not structurally sound to resist aerodynamic stresses. Remember back in 1930, Joe Ehrhardt won the Wakefield Cup using an all balsa wood aeromodel. Balsa wood construction was now considered obsolete, and impractical for high production. The FAI/CIAM had rescinded the ".Builder of the Model Rule" (they mean "Maker," don't they?) in 1988, and even now this action was having significant reactions in the form of technological, construction, and production of Wakefield models. The flying field was superb, a flat plain of low grass, with unlimited visibility, and importantly, an environment well known for its meteorological stability of clear skies, and calm windless weather patterns. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea team was here after an absence since the Livno WC in 1985. Flying this year for team USA were R Maves, G Xenakis on the team beginning in 1967 (?), and N Furutani. With Alex was another veteran Eugeny Gorban, and Stephan Stefanchuk. Also present was Alexander Andrjukov (CCCP) who was second to Cofalik last year, and who was the almost perennial European Wakefield Champion. Flying as it were "between the guns" Here to defend his title was the 1989 WC Eugeniusz Cofalik (Poland). The same place where twenty eight nations were about to compete in the Free Flight World Champ ionships. In this case after warring with each other for centuries, the Serbians and the Croatians were again at the doorway of civil war near Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia. Indicative of Rudyard Kipling was his opening statement "There will be trouble in the Balkans." Thought of today as a given when predicting the future troubles in the world. ![]() 1959 Frantsek Dvorak, 40, Czechoslovakia.Voting Guidelines and Meeting Administration.FAI Medico-Physiological Commission (CIMP).FAI Microlight and Paramotor Commission (CIMA). ![]()
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