After high school, Chuck decided to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. The ironic thing about that is that Chuck never even saw an airplane on the ground until he was 16 years old. He saw it when it had an emergency and landed in a cornfield, he was not even impressed with it. The reason that he joined the Air Corps is because the recruiter made the Air Corps sound more interesting that the Navy recruiter. Chuck joined the Air Corps as a mechanic. After a year of being a mechanic, the Untied States was short pilots, so they put up a notice to see if anyone wanted to become a pilot. Chuck wanted to be a pilot, so he signed the form. A year later he was chosen to be the pilot.

Later, after all of the complications, he tested more planes. One plane was the like X-1A which was a captured Russia plane. With the X-1A he almost he almost crashed. At 80,000 feet and going 1650 mph, the X-1A took a nosedive, in a downward spiral. Chuck was thrown all over the place; his head even cracking the canopy. However, by some miracle, he started to take control of the plane at 25,000 feet. He dropped 51,000 feet in 51 seconds. Another scare, while he was testing a plane, was that he had to jump out of a plane wearing a compression suit. The suit caught on fire and became tangled in his parachute. He survived the fall, but needed skin grafts for his burns.

After the war, he started working at a test pilot base in California. After a while Major Boyd asked Chuck if he wanted to become a test pilot, being that he was such a good combat pilot. He skipped right over the pilot school and was picked to fly the jet propelled X-1 to break the sound barrier. Three months later it was done, and Chuck’s name was in the record book. The interesting thing about it was that just days earlier he had broken ribs in a horseback riding accident. All of the other pilots at the school became very jealous that Chuck was granted this assignment. Someone was so jealous that they sent a letter saying that Chuck had not passed test pilot school. He was forced to go back and take the course, in which he almost failed to written course. He felt as if the instructors were out to get him.

in among the other pilots and mechanics. This was because he was from West Virginia, he had a strong accent, and a poor education. Due to this he was never really given a chance at first. When he first went in a plane, he almost quit the pilot school because there was turbulence and he was bumping all over the place. Other than this exper

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