Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1950

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Earning an FAI Gold Badge requires that the pilot complete an altitude gain of 3,000 meters, a distance flight of over 300 km, and a duration flight of five hours.   Only one duration flight is necessary to meet the requirements of both the Silver and the Gold Badge.

  27 Walter J. Krohne
  26 Erwin J. Reeves
  25 William G. Briegleb
  24 David R. Boone
  23 William S. Ivans
  22 Joe S. Irvine

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