Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1952


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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.


  39 Paul A. Schweizer
  38 Stephen J. Bennis
  37 Lawrence J. Gehrlein, Sr.
  36 Elizabeth Woodward²
  35 William H. Coverdale, Jr.
  34 Paul F. Bikle
  33 Dr. Joachim Kuettner

² WSPA

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