Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Silver Badges for 1945

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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.

  49 Paul A. Schweizer
   48 Clarence W. See, Jr.
   47 Franklin E. Hurtt

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