Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Silver Badges for 1940

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The Silver Badge is intended to develop the self-reliance of the new soaring pilot.   Earning the Silver Badge requires that the pilot complete a flight over a straight course of at least 50 km, an altitude gain of at least 1,000 meters, and a duration flight of at least five hours.

  35 J. Shelly Charles
  34 William H. Putnam
  33 Laurence D. Montgomery
   32 William G. Briegleb
  31 Harold W. Huber
  30 Lyle A. Maxey
   29 Joseph Steinhauser
  28 Richard Johnson

1937 1937 Silver Badges TOC Silver Badges Table of Contents 1941 1941 Silver Badges

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