User talk:Burnelli1

January 2011
Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Chalmers Goodlin. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. TN X Man 18:42, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Re:Chalmers Goodlin edit errors
Hello Burnelli1, and again welcome to Wikipedia. I just wanted you to know that I have read the message you left on my talk page. I have not yet looked at the page you've been editing, I will look and see what I can come up with. To be honest I'm not the best one for editing questions but, I will get back with you and if I don't have an answer we will find someone who does. Mlpearc  powwow  23:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure what exactly was wrong with your edits but, I left a message at Tnxman307 and asked to help explain the reverted edits. If you have any further questions you know where you can find me :).  Mlpearc   powwow  23:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for looking into this for me. Don't want to upset anyone or make statements/edits that are not true to the best of my knowledge. But I do know about Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin and know his widow. Been working on a plane design he championed for over 40 years by Vincent Burnelli from Temple, TX. Check it out if you like planes and/or plane history. See http://www.burnelli.com/Welcome.html for the planes he built and some other designs. I'm working on the 1964 design for a airliner on the front page of the Burnelli site. You can see some of what I've done here... http://www.aviationpeopletalk.net/ about half way down the page. The model in front of me is the only known flying RC of the 1964 Burnelli, supersonic airliner. Hope you like what you see. I'm workin' on it. Thanks again. Burnelli1 (talk) 17:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You need to provide third party reliable sources to support claims in articles. Active Banana    (bananaphone  17:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your detail of the rules for third party reliable sources. Are the sources below in >>> <<< not third party sources? The first is from Airspace Magazine. The second is from an interview of Goodlin. Just looking to put the truth in references to Chalmers Goodlin's history. Thanks again. Burnelli1 (talk) 06:52, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

The X-1 program was taken over by the United States Air Force after Bell balked at honoring a "gentleman’s agreement" with Goodlin on the contract terms for the late XS-1 pilot, Jack Woolams. Goodlin had a “handshake deal with Bob Stanley of Bell” the he’d “get $150,000 for the supersonic flights. But the Air Force wanted a man in uniform to break the sound barrier.” >>> <<< The Bell program was also needlessly conservative, increasing speed by only 0.02 Mach per flight. Subsequently, the sound barrier was broken by Captain Chuck Yeager in 1947. Bell asked Goodlin to pilot the X-2. Goodlin is reported to have said, “If your handshake wasn’t any good on the X-1 it won’t be any good on the X-2.”

His portrayal in the 1983 film The Right Stuff by actor William Russ was uninformed at best. Chalmers Goodlin writes "The "Right Stuff" film was absolute rubbish, and my portrayal in it was entirely fictional as well as libelous." >>> <<< He was a great test pilot, a great humanitarian and a great American.