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Bob kindly furnished me this information and a photograph of his aeromodel being prepared for flight by the proxy team member "Bunny" Ross of the UK. Robert Milligan of Canada took 6th place. Second place went to Beugueret, of France, with an average of 6 minutes 58 seconds. The model (Wakefield ) had floated down after some two or three minutes when it struck a powerful riser over a cornfield only 10 or 20 feet up (!) and (it) shot up to record over 30 minutes." Poor Maggy! In his next timely article he had to cover the 1939 contest! But, many years later in 1976 the "bleeding" seems to have continued, because in the "Aeromodeller" writing his by-line "Those Early Days.", "Magpie", A K A J van Hattum, was still agonizing: "It was a classic example of what was to happen time and again in National (National?) as well as International Contests. James Cahill was declared the 1938 Wakefield Champion, by the SMAE officials at the end of the contest, with a 10 minutes 54 second average. Just how one can "push" holding a fully wound rubber powered Wakefield by the tip of the wing and the tip of the propeller, is curious? Jim's third flight was 1 minute 8 seconds. James Cahill's first flight was for 30 minutes 54 seconds! Jim's second flight was disqualified for "pushing". Noonan also recalls that the main course at the 1938 US Nationals banquet was beans getting passage money to sail to Europe to fly in the Wakefield Event should have been insurmountable, but Team USA was there! James J Noonan, a boyhood friend to Gordon Wisniewski, wrote to me, that somehow Gordon's father came up with the money to pay for Gordon's passage.
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Getting to Paris had not been easy for any of the team members, because of the "The Great Depression". Jim was on the 1937 Team, but lost his aeromodel and could not compete in England. From America came the six person USA Team consisting of James Bohash, Detroit, Michigan, Gordon J Wisniewski, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, George De La Mater, Oneonta, NY, Henry Stielmeier, Inglewood, California, Ted Just, Johnstown, Penn, and James Cahill, Indianapolis, Indiana. Contestants from 14 nations made this first Wakefield event on the European continent a wonderful international event. The French hosts were now following a Wakefield tradition of honoring their guests with accommodations and contest preparations which were "par excellence". Jat the Caudron Aerodrome, Guyancourt, outside of Paris, France, was a day of light breezes, and sunshine. 1959 Frantsek Dvorak, 40, Czechoslovakia.
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