Charles L. Sharp; April 23, 1908 – January 14, 1974) was a trailblazing aviator from the United States who was commissioned as chief pilot for the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), and on assignment with the Republic of China Air Force in the discovery and establishment of the most-feasible heavy-airlift routes over the Himalayan Mountains in late-1941, in order to keep materiel and supplies flowing into wartime China; this supply-line into China became known as "The Hump".