1/12/2024 0 Comments Runescape forums bondsBy 1995 the Eastern European production of Wakefield parts, and even whole aeromodels ready to fly, was an in-place cottage industry that cranked out enough products to supply the entire Wakefield community, world wide, numbering less than one thousand., with a totally new kind of Wakefield. "Future Shock" set in, and it is a painful admission for me to confess that the deletion of the "Builder of the Model Rule", caused the obsolescence, and forced new innovators to buy into the East European technological revolution. By than we would see another American Wakefield Champion, but also a rules change, that impacted like a bomb on the aged society of American Wakefield flyers, and made everything they were flying, totally obsolete. From 1961 until 1987 is 26 years of groping without positive results. Beyond the emotional attachment to the Traditional Era, or even the attachment to the Vintage Era, that still lingered in 1986 with Martyn Pressnell, Benedek had simply broken the mold, and had leapt into the future, and very few Wakefield innovators picked up on the change until it was way too late. Yes I know that the USA won another Wakefield Cup in 1961, but be objective, and compare Reich's Wakefield to Benedek's. I don't mind an argument on this subject, because even casual research failed to produce a single example of the new typology in American design, and as a result the Americans fell into a period of moribund Wakefield design. The question is, why did it take so long for this typology to be recognized? The answer is of course conservatism, and tradition, especially in the USA, where nothing even remotely resembling the new typology appeared until the late 1970's. Even the most disinterested Wakefield observer will agree that Benedek's 1958 design was the 'leit motif' of the very same designs still prevalent today. This new typology was especially originated by the innovative aeromodel designs of George Benedek, of Hungary. 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.
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