Hall of Fame
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recognizes individuals who have made the highest achievements in, or contributions to, the sport of soaring in the United States of America. It has been located at the National Soaring Museum in
Elmira, New York
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, since 1975. The Hall has inducted the following people, arranged in alphabetical order, with their year of induction in parentheses.Soaring museum's Hall of fame Page
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George Applebay
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(1999)
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Leslie R. Arnold
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Francis P. Bundy Francis Pettit Bundy (September 1, 1910, Columbus, Ohio – February 23, 2008, Lebanon, Ohio) was an American physicist, known as a member of General Electric's team of researchers that in December 1954 created diamond chips by applying ultra high ...
Richard W. Butler
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He was the commandant of Joint Task Force Guantanamo from July 2013 to July 2014.
Butler went on record as supporting President Barack Obama's plan to close the dete ...
(2007)
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Jay Buxton
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Bruce Carmichael
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Awards and achievements
* MJHL Championship (1 ...
Alex Dawydoff
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(1967)
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Chester Decker
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Stephen duPont
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Einar K. Enevoldson
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(2010)
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Edward S. Evans
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John F. Good John Francis Good (June 17, 1936 – September 28, 2016) was an American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who created the Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abscam led to the arrest and conviction of sev ...
Frank R. Gross
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Carl Herold
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Herold was born in Loevelingloh (now part of Münster), Westphalia, the son of Ferdinand Herol, the first professor of ph ...
(1996)
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Barron Hilton
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Thomas L. Knauff
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George B. Moffat, Jr.
George B. Moffat Jr. is an author, twice world champion glider pilot, and a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame. He began flying airplanes in 1953, gliders in 1959, entered his first national soaring competition in 1962, and was still an active ...
Ernest Schweizer
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Wally Scott
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A. J. Smith
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Robert M. Stanley
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Robert Morris Stanley was born in El Reno, O ...