Chalmers Hubert "Slick" Goodlin (January 2, 1923 – October 20, 2005)[1] was the second test pilot of the Bell X-1 supersonic rocket plane, and the first to operate the craft in powered flight.

He began learning to fly at the age of 15, and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 on his eighteenth birthday,[3] inspired by the tremendous air battles over the English Channel in early World War II, but was unable to participate as part of the American military since the U.S. had not yet entered the war.

He was released from active duty and found employment with Bell Aircraft as a test pilot in December 1943.

[7] In 1948 Goodlin served as a Mahal (foreign volunteer) pilot in the newly formed Israeli Air Force, and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Later, when hostilities ceased, he flew Douglas DC-4s for Near East Air Transport on humanitarian missions, carrying thousands of Jewish refugees to Israel from Aden, Arabia and Germany.

He continued his career in aviation, owning Seychelles-Kilimanjaro Air Transport, and other companies supplying parts and aircraft to various airlines and other concerns.

He led joint ventures with an ex-Le Mans and F1 driver, the decorated Battle of Britain veteran Wing Commander Roger "Dennis" Poore – to whom Goodlin was known as "Chal" (as he was to his friends and family), in internationally leasing/chartering used aircraft and creating the first Dutch air charter company (Transavia) at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the mid-1960s.