Man is one of the reasons for my love of all things aviation. What a true loss. ☹️ Hope you can still fly aircraft in heaven because heaven would be boring without it.
I know this will sound eerie but I was watching this movie the day he died or the day before and I was asking myself how much time does Chuck Yeager have left. He's old. And by a freakish coincidence he died that same day or the day after
The flight depicted in this scene was in 1947. The Wright Brothers first flight was 1903 -- just 44 years earlier and Orville Wright was still alive at the time of this flight. That's a lot of change in one person's lifetime.
The first flight of the B-52 was five years after this event in 1952. The B-52 is still flying in the USAF and will be for another 30+ years. WWII was a war for knowledge and information at a time when humanity was just learning how to interperate said information... look at all the technological advances in the years immediately following WWII...
@@maxfrankow1238 Mr Yeager's book corrects some things that are portrayed incorrectly in this film. And his own account of shooting down an ME-262 is different than how many people would like to believe it happened.
@Franklin Vaugn ribs if I remember correctly, and trust me if you add the pressure in the cockpit it's far more painful, because one can't stop breathing. 👍
A man's man. A bonafide legend. His passing brings to mind a quote from General George Patton. "We should not mourn the passing of such men, but rather praise God that such men have lived."
А ты знаешь о Великой Депрессии - тот же голод,только в США (и это при наличии продуктов),в котором ПРОПАЛО!!!! 12 млн. американцев?,и тогда же появилось множество трудовых концлагерей,которые КАК РАЗ в года Великой Депрессии и понастроили множество дорог,городов,фабрик,заводов. построили Великую Стену у Миссисипи,что бы она не разливалась так широко,различные плотины и множество гидроэлектростанций
Tимо - знаешь, какая рифма к твоему имени? И что самое интересное(только ты не обижайся) - ОЧЕНЬ верная - МИМО !!! Потому что ты истории не знаешь абсолютно !!!! А уж тем более истории экономики. Я дам тебе миллион , если ты назовёшь,ГДЕ был КОММУНИЗМ !!! Ну и немного экономической истории - ну вот с хренов ли в США ВООБЩЕ мог быть кризис , если по производству продуктов питания она выступала на первом месте в мире , НО вот почему-то то,что не продавалось - раздавливалось тракторами , сгнаивалось , выбрасывалось в море и на мусорки , и просто сжигалось,если горело - как растительные масла.Вот ты представляешь,народ голодает из-за того , что капиталист решил поддержать текущие цены .и ПОЭТОМУ часть продуктов отправил под тракторы на мусорках. Нет что бы СНИЗИТЬ цены и раздать беднякам - да наклали они на народ , да и не их это народ ,пусть подыхает,лишь бы прибыль не снизилась!!! И как ты думаешь,ПОЧЕМУ Германия.которая репарацией расплачивалась (а это значит 95% всей прибыли шло на выплаты) ВДРУГ стала ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИ ПОДНИМАТЬСЯ? Как ты думаешь,КТО стал ВДРУГ инвестировать в беднейшую Германию? ОЙ - а это ВДРУГ компании : - SIEMENS , COCA-COLA , BOSS , FORD , General Motors , Standart Oil , Maggi , Kodak , Allians , Krupp & Thyssen , Bayer ,Renault , Ikea и множество ещё более мелких компаний и по сей день существующих
@@Shutterbun4 Right? I use it myself any time I describe needing to "go fast" Flooring my WRX? I put the spurs to er' Leading a sprint on my road bike? Putting the spurs to 'er Every once and a while I say it... and someone gives me the "look" Yeah... they know where it came from. Kindred spirit.
General Yeager has stated him and Lt Hoover could fly but it was Col Ridley who had the brains. Hoover being from Tennessee Yeager from West Virginia and Ridley from Oklahoma he said Col Ridley spoke their language and both trusted their lives with him. He also stated that if Ridley had at any given time told him it was unsafe to fly you would’ve never heard from “yours truly”.
I stopped watching it after episode 5. Mediocre acting, most of the astronauts look almost nothing like the real characters, dreadful CGI, cheap production (hate to say it but it shows), no Chuck Yeager,/X plane program/Edwards AFB era, no rocket development process and the whole show/story focuses on all the wrong things. I don’t care or want to know how many girls Shepard and Cooper screwed or see a complete run down of all the pool parties, LIFE magazine interviews and social gatherings they attended. I want to mostly know about the technical difficulties they faced, the scientific challenges, the space race with the Russians, the training they went through , the proper selection process and obviously the fears, concerns and doubts they had in every step and how they managed to push through. Nothing of that was shown, WTF!
@MacBookemDanno I might be wrong with this but I’ll say it anyway. My gut feeling is that the production simply does not have enough money to deal with this project properly. Showing X planes program and Edwards AFB record breaking attempts, missile tests, astronaut training facilities, labs, launching sites etc and do them properly, translates into immaculate and detailed -Nolan level CGI, blended with proper practical effects with real planes and good mock ups. All of the above translates into a huge budget for a TV show, which evidently do not have. If you notice 95% of the scenes are either indoors or small outdoor areas (swimming pool, parking lot) and involve people and dialogue whether that has to do with office stuff, interviews, flirting with girls, Family affairs issues etc. The budget you need to shoot all that is negligible: the only proper scenes I’ve seen thus far (watched up to episode 5) that warren some aerospace interest was the F-104 flight and the failed Redstone rocket launch, all done with CGI so bad that looks like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 graphics.
@MacBookemDanno I would summarize the era thusly, borrowing from both Tom Wolfe and my own USAF uncle: 1.) Flying. 2.) Drinking. 3.) Driving. 4.) Screwing. That said, when the balloon went up and the chips were down: a.) You went where you were needed, and b.) You would sooner crash and burn than let your buddies down.
Great scene. This moment was interesting in showing the transition from early flight to the beginning of the space age. He climbs into a rocket plane about to go supersonic -- wearing a leather jacket, leather helmet, and goggles!
@@glennellis1584 Dude... you don't know the half of it... hell yeah he had two big brass ones alright. Fun fact: at the time - hardshell flight helmets weren't a thing yet - so he modded a football helmet of the period to fit over his leather flight helmet and radio ear cups. You see him in the bar carving it up with a buck knife to suit his needs - that's why the line "gonna look like the galloping ghost (a famous football player) in this" when Ridley tosses him. the helmet. He did indeed use a modified football helmet for his flight. Also - he did fly with broken ribs, from a horseback riding incident and DID use a sawed off broomstick to latch the door on the X1 on his Mach 1 flight. His wife drove him 50 miles into town to see an off base doctor, so he wouldn't get grounded. So, That's true. Another interesting thing was, the door for the X1 was just in front of the wings and had no ejection seat - wings which were so thin there were guards placed on them when the plane was parked lest ground crew injure themselves on them... which means had Yeager attempted to bail out of the plane - he'd have certainly been killed. So while yes, he had a parachute, in his autobiography - he mentioned he only wore it so he had a comfortable pad to sit on - he had no illusions of actually being able to use it in an emergency to egress the plane. In the X1A (the plane he loses control of and busts the canopy with his helmet in) - he didn't even have a chute - the canopy was bolted into place and there was no escape system. So yeah - he almost died there. That scene actually happened more or less as depicted, he lost control at mach 2.3 and fell out of the sky and lost 10 miles of altitude before getting control back. He said in his autobiography, had the plane had an escape system or ejection seat - he'd have bailed out of it. Instead the guy did what he had to do and wrestled the beast back under control. there was a fair amount of Hollywood in the F104 scene in the movie - but he did nearly die in an NF104 doing re entry research workups for the (later cancelled) x20 dynasoar program.
The brief shot of the pictures on the wall at Pancho's @ 4:31 gets me everytime. Thank you to Phillip Kaufman for making part of this story the fact so many men gave their lives to help achieve this. That should never be forgotten. Like a winning quarterback, Chuck Yeager (not to take anything away from him), great as he is, gets the glory for the accomplishment of thousands and thousands of test pilots, engineers, craftsmen, maintenance men, repairmen, military officer, political leaders and really all of us Americans. It was a national achievement.
Chuck Yeager said this project would not have succeeded without Jack Ridley. You have to read Yeager’s biography to know what I’m talking about. Ridley saved the project.
"Put the spurs to her Chuck..." an incredible time, and thanks to those who helped make an amazing film. In particular thanks to those we've lost and those who are still with us, including the actors, the pilots, and especially Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield and all seven Mercury Astronauts... Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton
Virgil "Gus' Grissom was the first of the Mercury Astronauts to die. He was killed along with Ed White and Roger Chaffee while inside an Apollo test module that caught fire on January 27, 1967. John Glenn was the oldest of the Mercury Astronauts and the last to die at age 95 on December 8, 2016.
But you wouldn't know it hardly after scoping the news media just now. Only CBS News and NBC News gave us any kind of information about his passing, and even at that, the story was buried. Shame on the media, especially after giving Ginsburg the royal treatment for weeks. Complete shame.
Amazingly, just 15 years after Yeager exceeded Mach 1, Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works built the SR-71. That plane remained the fastest ever built for 1/2 the time period of manned flight. The most incredible and innovative technical achievement in Human History. An analogy is building a computer in 1980, and it is STILL the Worlds fastest Computer in 2021.... That is what the SR-71 accomplished.
I believe the x-15 was much faster than the sr71. Your point still stands though, the x15 was also flown in the 60s and it's record has yet to be broken.
@@marchicagoThe X-15 is definitely the fastest of all time. It reached a speed of Mach 6.7 (4,534 mph) and also broke the altitude record by flying an incredible 354,000 feet. The pilots flew so high that they were actually given astronaut wings for officially being in space. But because it had to be dropped from a bomber and had rockets, it’s not considered a true jet. And that’s why the SR-71 is considered the fastest airplane.
They cut off the very best part of the scene at the end. There is the sonic boom, and someone says " What's that sound, oh God". Then in the movie he says "He bought the farm" and then yeager goes flying by. Love this movie.
Why on earth did you cut if off before showing the part where everyone realized Yeager had broken the sound barrier, and he did his victory roll? That was the best part of the scene.
@@josephastier7421 On 4 Mar 1987, Reagan made a further nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for the ' Iran Contra affair ' stating "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages".
Last Monday I had a sudden urge to watch this flick again. After watching it, I thought it'd be perfect for my school's aeronautics elective class so I showed it over three days. The students ate it up, really interested. After this scene on the first day a student asked me what happened to Yeager, I said he actually does a cameo in this film and he's still alive today. We looked him up to see what he was up to only to discover he had died the same day I had a desire to watch the film again...the day before. I was stunned. The universe strikes again. R.I.P. Chuck. I'm glad that I could be the one to regale another group of young men with your amazing feats, heroism, and determination. The world needs men like you, and sadly now, is severely lacking. But you struck a chord in my classroom, and that's the pinpoint beginning of your mammoth legacy.
Levon was even better in Coal Miners Daughter. I always love just before this scene when he improvised that stick by cutting down a portion of a broomstick and then twirls it like a drummer would. I like to think that was his little nod to his years with The Band
The film didn't make a deal of it but the man flying the chase plane was Chuck's best friend Bob Hoover who was another legendary pilot, one of the few Chuck saw as his equal
The story of Yeager meeting Hoover is legendary, they Tangled in a mock dogfight above Wright field Yeager in an Xp-80 and Hoover in a P-38 and neither one could outfly the other.
@@kdrapertrucker Yeah I read both biographies and both had a funny tale about that day. They near killed each other unintentionally trying to out do each other!
My father’s boss was the son of aviation pioneer Ben Epps. He recently retired and gave those who worked with him for so long, including my father, some things he kept in his office. Among them was a model of the X-1, signed by Chuck Yeager himself only 3 years before his death. Knowing that I love aeronautics as much as he does, my father passed it down to me. It’s one of my most prized possessions.
Amazes me that Hollywood never made a movie about Yeager's life. After reading his autobiography and seeing this movie, I realized he had a story to tell.
This line is from a time when masculinity was hallowed and revered, I feel in some ways today it's being questioned, marginalized and ridiculed. Until that quality is needed again, perhaps even by the those who undervalued and derided it.
Four of us guys were walking to the parking garage at work, and another coworker snapped a picture of us from behind walking shoulder to shoulder. The boss had it framed with the title, "The Wrong stuff" and put it up at work. It's hilarious.
When I was about 22 years of age back in 1984, I visited some friends in West Bend, Wisconsin…..one morning they took me to a local breakfast diner where I had the privilege of sitting with a husband and wife team of engineers, probably in their 70’s at the time, explaining to me that they were part of the back room team working at Edward’s AFB in the era of Yeager, etc….the husband’s official title was “engineer” and the wife’s title was “computer” as she had to number crunch with a slide rule the collected data from test flights….they were both members of Pancho Barne’s “Happy Bottom Riding Club” and said Yeager was a good guy to work with…no ego….like I said, what a privilege to have spent a bit of time with them….
When I was a kid growing up in the sixties in Boston, I remember hearing sonic booms as supersonic planes passed overhead. Never knew where they came from or where they were going. Just every so often that huge BOOM out of a clear blue sky.
RIP Chuck Yeager (February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020), aged 97 And RIP Sam Shepard (November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017), aged 73 You both will always be remembered as legends.
Out drinking at a bar the night before he's to make history. Falls off the horse and breaks his ribs and still climbs into the X-1 to break the sound barrier the next day!
I put together a Testors model of the X-1 back in high school. I kid you not, there was a tiny piece that I almost threw away until I looked closely at the directions; it was the broomstick handle. They even included a paint color recommendation for it as well as the location where General Yeager possibly placed it after getting settled in the cockpit.
Me and the team I was with from Norton AFB were at Edwards when they were filming The Right Stuff. We were installing new telephone cables in the same area. Sadly, We were not allowed to have cameras because some of the places we were working at were classified . That sucked. Great Movie. 1835th E.I.S. AFCC.
I saw this in the theater as a teen. I thought it was weird that these guys were flying rocket planes but getting around on horses. Later watched it a million times on HBO. I love that contrast of galloping off in the sunset after flying their "space ships"👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I had the pleasure of meeting with Gen. Yeager twice, once in Oshkosh, with his best friend and another American ace, "Bud" Anderson. We were meeting to start the translation of his autobiography into Spanish. Later the publishing house change its mind and the project didn't take off. But at least I got to meet my childhood hero and jad a few beers with him (I have a photo with him but can't find it a the moment). We both shared the fact of having 20/10 vision.
The Beeman's gum was more important than many people think... chewing gum helped keep Col. Yeager's estuation tubes from closing for very long a time, if they had, there's a very real possibility of him busting out an ear drum from the great altitude / pressure changes. A busted eardrum(s) can result in loss of balance and vertigo, not to mention INTENSE pain. All things you do NOT need to be dealing with when you're Breaking the Sound Barrier after your Horse threw you and broke a couple ribs. Flight Surgeons, the WORST!
Very well created scene. Actually they had a part of an old B-29 fuselage leased from a museum and a wooden X-1 mockup in a studio. Plus some models and real "news-reel" segments for the exterior shots.
@@MA-wq2ih Yeah, "Fertile Myrtle", who also flew in "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark". Grounded for wing spar corrosion by the FAA and Kermit never had the time or money to pull her apart for a rebuild. CAF did Fifi, and now Doc is flying, so maybe Kermit will someday now that a process is known.
General Yeager was so much more than the man who broke the sound barrier, but this was a major accomplishment for sure. A WWII fighter ace, he was shot down and actually talked his way back in to flying again when the rules clearly stated he could not. He went from the Army Air Corp to the Air Force, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, all the while working on air plane development, even into his retirement. He was a true hero. If you get one thing out of watching this, look up his autobiography, buy it and read it. You will not regret it, at all. R.I.P. General Yeager.
I always thought it was strange how the special effects in The Right Stuff rarely gets mentioned as being still some of the best ever on screen. From how well they incorporate stock footage with the incredible model work to the sets and mockups they built of cockpits. capsules, and command centers - this film still feels light years ahead of even modern films in how good it looks. Not to mention the story is incredible, the music perfect, and pretty much everything else about this movie makes it one of the greatest films of all time.
This dude shot down jet fighters with a prop airplane during ww2. Later, he went on to break the sound barrier. When anyone mentions ‘American exceptionalism,’ this is the archetype.
