1. Chuck Coleman worked as a design and performance engineer for several aircraft corporations such as McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Bede Jet Corporation and Scaled Composites.
15 Facts About Chuck Coleman
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Chuck Coleman was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots SETP as an Associate Fellow, and served on the board of directors for the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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Chuck Coleman was raised in St Johns, Michigan, by Thomas Chuck Coleman and JoAnn Smith.
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Chuck Coleman was a design engineer for 6 years at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in St Louis, Missouri.
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Chuck Coleman was a project engineer at the Bede Jet Corporation in Chesterfield, Missouri at the Spirit of St Louis Airport.
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Chuck Coleman served as the test pilot on the BD-10, a kit-built experimental jet aircraft, and BD-12, a two-seat experimental plane with a pusher configuration.
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Chuck Coleman joined Scaled Composites in Mojave, California as a performance engineer, test pilot, and chase pilot in 2002.
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Chuck Coleman was on a team of five engineers that designed, constructed, and flight tested the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, which was the first jet powered aircraft to fly around the world non-stop un-refueled.
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Chuck Coleman was a test pilot for the Proteus high altitude jet and tested the Tier One Navigation System for SpaceShipOne, as well as conducting high-G astronaut training for SpaceShipOne astronauts and serving as chase pilot for SpaceShipOne flights.
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Chuck Coleman served as a test pilot for the ICON A5, an American amphibious light-sport aircraft.
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In 2018, Chuck Coleman trained the lead actors starring in Top Gun: Maverick featuring Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Jennifer Connelly.
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Chuck Coleman conducted 140 G tolerance training flights in an Extra EA-300 with actors Glen Powell, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Lewis Pullman, and Danny Ramirez, in a flight training regime designed by Cruise.
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Chuck Coleman was performing aerobatics when his Extra EA-300 plane crashed half a mile west of the airport.
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Chuck Coleman won two Collier Trophies for his involvement in the development of the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster and Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne.
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Chuck Coleman was part of the Scaled Composites team that won the Ansari X Prize, a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a cash prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.