Goodlin doesn't seem to have been slammed by Yeager, according to my
recollection of Yeager's book. Though noting the high figures demanded
(or contracted for), I remember the other evaluating pilot saying that
Goodlin deserved "every dime". I think the USAF wanted to grab the
project because it coincided with the official inauguration of the AF
as a separate service. That's the impression I got from Yeager's book
- which seems implicitly lauditory when you think of how low Yeager
held civilian test pilots in esteem. Civilian test pilots? They do it
for the money. They pick up an airplane, play around with it, then
discard it without contributing any useful information about it. Even
George Welch gets the treatment. The pilot of the F-104 that collided
with B-70 No. 2? A NASA pilot. It's not the same deal in NASA, Yeager
says - he'd stand up any day for those shuttle drivers. But during the
golden years of aviation, Goodlin emerges favorably.

I read years later that Goodlin flew Spitfires for the Israeli AF in
'48 - this from an Israeli magazine that mentions Goodlin having been a
test pilot, but omits any mention of the X-1.