Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1982


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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.


1432 John O. Graybill
1431 Gordon Ray Wingate
1430 James D. Cogburn³
1429 Paul Trautman, Jr.
1428 James Kirkland Garner
1427 Wolfgang Wirthgen
1426 Lawrence E. Cook
1425 Lloyd V. Hammer
1424 Jean-Claude Batault
1423 Peter Van Schoonhoven
1422 Jackson B. Wood
1421 Karl Walter Sommer
1420 Bill T. Jones
1419 Virgil L. Minter
1418 Gregory B. Mecklenburg
1417 John J. Meyer
1416 Peter J. Jordan
1415 Jack Benedict
1414 Mark A. Macaulay
1413 Clifton J. Chandler
1412 G. Gregory Bauer
1411 Steven Fahrner
1410 Darrel Watson
1409 Stanley K. Russell
1408 Romas Rackauskas
1407 Douglas Gorgen
1406 Barry L. Burke
1405 Robert B. Gibson³
1404 Steven A. Kempe
1403 Richard J. Hausman
1402 John V. Duncan
1401 Christopher C. Callaghan
1400 Michael Slingluff
1399 Tom Lovelace
1398 A. Ray Hughes
1397 Donald Lee Coroneos
1396 David Nadler
1395 James O. Freese
1394 Ed Kilbourne
1393 Vonard G. Ross
1392 Gary D. Peterson
1391 Robert S. Templin
1390 W. Michael Humphreys
1389 Robert Numan
1388 Christopher Reeve
1387 Philip J. Lawrence
1386 Donald H. Witcher
1385 Anthony G. Lauck
1384 Galen D. Fisher

³ All badge legs flown in a 1-26

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