Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1979


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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.


1280 Douglas Lee Jacobs
1279 George Hanke
1278 John Squires
1277 Paul Edward Rendel
1276 Dagfinn Gangsaas
1275 Thomas Franklin
1274 Steven Keith Stewart
1273 Brian Thomson
1272 Paul S. Kenney
1271 Andrew J. Buelna³
1270 Richard B. Broeking
1269 Gilbert D. Roberts
1268 Charles H. Stark
1267 Gordon Anderson
1266 Scott Crosier
1265 Martha Pearce²
1264 Donald Uber
1263 Albert F. Shields
1262 Karl Landl
1261 Jonathan Gere
1260 Mike J. Hoke
1259 Roger Lee Grigsby
1258 Fritz Seger
1257 James L. Hamilton
1256 Charles Fitzsimmons
1255 Richard M. Strang
1254 Albert W. Blackburn
1253 Charles Kalko
1252 Jere R. Calef
1251 Donald G. Toepel
1250 C. Merle Hanley
1249 Richard Carter
1248 James L. Dean
1247 Robert A. Mitchell
1246 Phillip Calvert
1245 J. Kelly Scarborough
1244 Wm. Stewart Tittle
1243 Gordon Casamaior
1242 Stephen Zimmerman
1241 Dickie Bottom
1240 Rolf Hertenstein, Jr.
1239 Phillip W. Dufford
1238 Robert Casamajor
1237 Patrick DeNaples³
1236 Auguste Mathey, Jr.
1235 Robert E. Barber
1234 Joseph E. Rench
1233 Loring K. Green

² WSPA
³ All badge legs flown in a 1-26

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