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Gordon S. Light

The American, Gordon S. Light, was born in 1915 and won the Wakefield Trophy in 1935

To Gordon S. Light Biography
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Gordon Light. Picture believed to be from 1936
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Building the 1933 model.
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In 1972 Alwyn Greenhalgh made this replica of Light's 1933 model
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Tommy Ives holding Lights Wakefield winning model. Ives flew the model as proxy for Gordon Light to win the trophy in 1935
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Alwyn Greenhalgh model. From Alwyn's album.
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The model design started some years earlier than 1935.​
The following article shows the lineage of the 1935 Wakefield winning model. Flown Proxy by J.E. Pelly-Fry in 1933 and Stan Rushbrooke in 1934
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James E. Pelly-Fry, who flew the model Proxy in 1933, watching Gorden Light's model in flight.
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Gordon Light's model - "Miss America"
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This and the previous photograph are from Pelly-Fry's personal album.
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