Balls of a metal so hard science has yet to figure out what it is
@wacobob56dad3 жыл бұрын
“Sir, over there. Is that a man ?.” “You’re damn right it is”. Gets me every time.
@jton6852 Жыл бұрын
One of the best lines of all fucking time.
@richspinaci8293 Жыл бұрын
This scene here and Shepard first taking off in this jet gets me every time. Levon Helm saying “you’re damn right it is” chokes me up every time
@TheJbn7013 Жыл бұрын
Gets me too
@brigadier-tc85653 жыл бұрын
Without a rocket, without a college education, without a tickertape parade, Chuck Yeager made it into space with just a plane. He really did have the Right Stuff.
@anw7123 жыл бұрын
I mean space starts at 350,000ft (he was at 101,000) but your damn right he managed to do all this with his own bravery, i was in sorrow the entire day when the news said he passed away
@Bobcatflyfish3 жыл бұрын
@@anw712 at the time of that flight, space was considered to start at around 80,000 ft, so by the standards of the day, he did fly into space
@hoorayforhawksbills3 жыл бұрын
They did. Several X-15 pilots were awarded Astronaut wings.
@matt_548vnd43 жыл бұрын
Not trying to steal your thunder but he actually did have a rocket, the actual plane he used was an NF-104 that had a rocket but in the movie a F-104 was shown
@ianmangham45703 жыл бұрын
Two 6000LB rocketdyne boosters 😎 1:36 1:54
@KabukiKid Жыл бұрын
Don't forget to honor the stuntman who died during this sequence. Sad taint to such a perfect movie. "During the filming of a sequence portraying Chuck Yeager's ejection from an NF-104, stuntman Joseph Svec, a former Green Beret, was killed when he failed to open his parachute because he may have been unconscious from smoke." (from Wikipedia)
@cgilleybsw5 ай бұрын
wtf? rip.
@davidallbaugh68583 ай бұрын
Thanks, I did not know that.
@RebeccaCampbell19693 ай бұрын
Real movies were made by real men, not weak ones who click bought software and create bad cgi But still a fatality is horrible anywhere :(
@emilypound11 ай бұрын
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Spectacular
@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx3 жыл бұрын
There are old pilots. And there are bold pilots. But there are never old, bold pilots. Chuck. You've made that exception. RIP
@Packless13 жыл бұрын
...many times he risked a lot, but he never risked too much...!
@Michael-wy2iz3 жыл бұрын
Have to read the book to know why he was burned
@Lupinthe3rd.3 жыл бұрын
John Gleen be like WTF i went into space at age 77 i am not the exception too.
@Contractnik2 жыл бұрын
The great Levon Helm delivering that line perfectly in reference to the great Chuck Yeager played by the great Sam Shepherd. Two legends lionizing a legendary hero.
@RebeccaCampbell196911 ай бұрын
And today not even race car drivers of the highest category behave like that... like men. Rubber champions, cry babies... from the farming land which is Netherlands... not even NASCAR ... pathetic
@davidallbaugh68583 ай бұрын
It is an irony that Chuck Yeager outlived Sam Shepherd.
@iaiband3 жыл бұрын
Stalling at 100k feet , falling into a flat spin and walking away from it is a feat of super human ability
@dijonstreak2 жыл бұрын
man....NO KIDDING 1!! to say the least. !! WOW. !!
@johnstratton74705 ай бұрын
Damm right it is 👍
@edd4816Ай бұрын
Also super human luck to be fair
@dq12753 жыл бұрын
Yeager was actually on fire inside his suit after he ejected because the pyrotechnics from his seat shattered through his visor. If you look closely, the movie tries to convey it, but if you read the book he is in a life and death struggle to pull the lava like stuffing out of his helmet. Balls of steel. Punch a hole in the sky Chuck! RIP
@matth40532 жыл бұрын
yeah this movie scene doesn't do this event or Yeager's bravery and resilience justice.
@LavaLampBlob2 жыл бұрын
Yeah according to his biography, he got hit in the face with the bottom of the ejection seat, which was still glowing red hot - his pressure suit had pure oxygen and the rubber seals of his helmet caught fire - with the pure oxygen it became a blow torch. He was severely burned and had to endure some crazy painful treatments afterward.
@warplanner8852 Жыл бұрын
@@LavaLampBlob thanks for the explanation! I never really knew the reason for the frantically attempt to pull the helmet off or why Sam Shepherd's face was blackened.
@jenniferann7212 Жыл бұрын
How is it possible for a man to keep a such a cool head when his helmet is on fire??
@chezsnailez Жыл бұрын
correction, balls of spun-cast titanium...
@briantethers9430 Жыл бұрын
I grew up near Mojave. I loved hearing those jets break the sound barrier. Saw many Shuttle landings too as a kid in the 80's out there. BOOM, BOOM!
@spacecat72477 ай бұрын
I bet that was cool as hell!
@cgilleybsw5 ай бұрын
I miss the dessert...
@jcraigshelton3 жыл бұрын
RIP General Yeager. You represented the best of the United States of America. The best there ever was.
@peregrinec54773 жыл бұрын
Icarus flying too close the sun...I love the imagery. Damn... What a badass this man was.
@edd4816Ай бұрын
Yeager seeing that glimpse of the stars through the rarefied atmosphere never fails to give me chills
@jimhirsch4482 Жыл бұрын
40 years since its initial release. Still the best movie I have ever seen. IMHO!!
@ellenroehl6022Ай бұрын
The book is even better!
@T.S.Birkby3 жыл бұрын
Chuck Yeager passed his final envelope into the heavens, I hope he’s drinking a cold beer with all his friends and family up there 🍺
@billsargent34073 жыл бұрын
But he's is looking about.. just to see... what needs a check out...
@sharoncasey922 жыл бұрын
Sam Shepherd as Yaeger-talk about casting perfection.
@chrisdonaldson24973 жыл бұрын
This is 100% my favourite moment in any film ever
@majormediaproductions3 жыл бұрын
Ya damn skippy that's a man 🛩️🏁🛩️🏁🛩️🏁 R.I.P. Chuck Yeager💐
@ForgottenHonor02 жыл бұрын
Chuck Yeager got jibbed, seriously. He was the best damn test pilot in the US and just because he lacked a college education they completely ignored he broke the sound barrier and passed him over.
@Heffro20102 жыл бұрын
The brass also knew we was going to be too hard to control. Too much of a maverick. He had more influence than the other guys that did end up becoming astronauts.
@lizclegg7556 Жыл бұрын
I would hardly describe him as ignored.
@garypounder359210 ай бұрын
Chuck lost interest in the astronaut program when he learned they would be largely along for the ride. “spam in a can,” as he famously observed
@metrotek5 Жыл бұрын
The chair broke his mask exposing his oxygen supply to flame. This was his last test flight.
@Wolf_Dominic11 ай бұрын
I gotta say, it’s quite the one to go out on.
@pb65133 жыл бұрын
To slip the surely bonds of earth and touch the face of God. RIP Chuck.
@jupiterlegrand48173 жыл бұрын
Even right before he passed at 96, there is no one...NO one...I'd want more at the controls of an aircraft I was in that Chuck Yeager. You know that no matter how bad the emergency, with his dying breath, that man would get that plane down and you'd walk away. He maintained an even strain. Chuck Yeager: for all time, the greatest pilot, the rightest stuff.
@Hunpecked2 жыл бұрын
Getting down isn't the hard part. 🙂
@goober2082 жыл бұрын
he considered astronauts SPAM IN A CAN
@wolfeyes93573 жыл бұрын
The Best Pilot and Astronaut!!! He flew....no mission control.....The Man Flew into the edge of space! God Bless Mr. Yeager!!! Balls as big as Planets!
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
Lest we forget the import of this certain scene, Yeager barely escaped with his life in a botched first attempt at sub-orbital flight. However, he was a true hero. Before Glenn, he was the first to surpass all the known limits of the sky ceiling.
@ianmangham45703 жыл бұрын
When I was a young guy I thought this was the best thing I'd ever seen on TV
@SharonCasey-d3w6 ай бұрын
To really appreciate it, you just have to see it on the big screen. Yowza!
@ratcapricorn18952 жыл бұрын
I just remembered how this scene stayed in my head from back then!
@lewisjones41583 жыл бұрын
Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, in darkened storm or sunlight glare. O, hear us when we lift our prayer, for those in peril in the air. A-men. R.I.P Chuck "Flyboy" Yeager
@timfremstad34346 ай бұрын
Royal Dano sounded like he had peanut butter in his mouth when he sang that
@csantoi3 жыл бұрын
This is a top 3 1980s movie and up there with the greatest aviation movies like Wings and Hell's Angels. Sad that it gets overshadowed by Top Gun, because it's so much better.
@timfremstad34346 ай бұрын
Top Gun is a joke....the only thing I ever liked about it was the opening, Top Gun 2 is a bigger joke,
@michaelmuldowney83 жыл бұрын
Chuck and Sam are sharing a cold one somewhere.
@riddick729 Жыл бұрын
I have seen a lot of movies in my life. Many have had that "i did it" moment. This one, just takes the cake.
@themadlad85403 жыл бұрын
Jesus:God is that a man God:Dam right it is
@michaelmerritt740610 ай бұрын
And for a few seconds, Chuck Yaeger touched the sky.
@ヤス-b3r14 күн бұрын
This is the pride of a man who stayed true to himself without giving in. I really like people like this.
@fletsepopje2 жыл бұрын
"Sir, over there, is that a man?" "No, that's a legend." RIP General, blue skies
@pilotguy5763 жыл бұрын
The best pilot anyone ever saw.
@philipreichert4284Ай бұрын
I had the very good fortune to meet and talk with this Legend of the Heavens. A gentlemens, gentleman.
@domwoodhouse23833 жыл бұрын
God rest your soul, Chuck Yeager
@richardsmyth3053 ай бұрын
When Gordo Cooper was asked by the press 'Who was the best pilot you ever saw?', we know he really wanted to say it was Chuck Yaeger, before his ego intervened.
@brianmccord8106 Жыл бұрын
Chuck Yeager deserves his own candle! He has brought more spiritual enlightenment to this world… bringing spiritual evolution to all that began to know him! My family thanks you
@allisonjohnson63992 жыл бұрын
The image of the stars coming into view is embedded in my mind forever
@ursomrano5423 жыл бұрын
I love how the moral of the story is something along the lines of “the men who do nothing get the fame but the men who don’t are the ones who get shit done”. Or at least that’s how I interpreted it.
@nightbird70752 жыл бұрын
F-104A Starfighter 💯🔥. In Belgium 🇧🇪 we had the F-104G and we flew those babies until 1983.
@patrickforrest31092 жыл бұрын
Indeed Chuck is the best test pilot who inspired many to follow R.I.P General Chuck Yager.
@gpapa312 жыл бұрын
At least he didn’t walk into a diner asking where he is.
@Michael-wy2iz3 жыл бұрын
Such a simple scene but so dramatic..I think the music.
@JDLamps13 жыл бұрын
His balls of steel tipped the bird over
@dodgedude9086 ай бұрын
Anyone else get chills just from hearing the engine spool up before takeoff?
@alanhelton3 жыл бұрын
RIP you man of men!
@cgilleybsw5 ай бұрын
this scene does not do Yeager justice, but it is a movie. Reading his autobiography, Yeager was the ultimate professional. He would never just wing something as shown. Yeager was some sort of guy - few of us hit our slot in life. I'd love to have had a coffee with his wife and get her take. But as Jack Reacher would say, "in an investigation, details matter." - these 104s were modified with thrusters on the aircraft. Everyone already knew that once you lost atmosphere, flight surfaces would not work. USAF had been going to space for 10 years before NASA ever formed - NASA absorbed all of their data. That day, the nose thrusters failed - there was no way to put the 104 (which could barely fly anyway) into an envelope to regain control. To USAF and the early astronauts!...
@wacobob56dad3 жыл бұрын
Best part of the movie.
@peteman81603 жыл бұрын
Yes
@vitorcampos23145 ай бұрын
Chuck Yeager is the GOAT, it was a shame that the US Government cancelled the X20 project, the dude should have been to space
@DavidSmith-fs6pi2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Yeager was a great,great man
@philipastore7706 Жыл бұрын
I think I see a Plane that's got my name on it!!! Amen Chuck...:o)
@Cyan_Nightingale2 жыл бұрын
The F104 was a beautiful aircraft but it wasn't meant to fly. It earned the nickname "Widowmaker" due to accidents associated with it. And also in service with various NATO countries although it was plagued by bribe scandal. It was immortalized here. Just beautiful cinematography
@tompoore2081 Жыл бұрын
Another nickname for the F-104: “missile with a man in it.”
@EddieFelson777 Жыл бұрын
Always get goosebumps watching this scene
@gezag.hanniker19406 ай бұрын
I never forget when I saw him in a cameo in the TV show I Dream of Jeannie with actor Larry Hagman next to a F - 102 Voodoo.
@scarybaldguy17 күн бұрын
101 was the Voodoo. 102 was the Dagger.
@dijonstreak2 жыл бұрын
WOW. !! WHAT A HELLUVA DOCUMENTARY...FELT i was actually experiecing this !!... how in the heck did they film this...way AWESOME. ~~.
@shashank0842 жыл бұрын
I came here after Top gun: Maverick.
@jednickАй бұрын
One of many inaccuracies in the movie. Col. Ridley had been killed in an airplane crash six years before this happened.
@gordonhall9871 Жыл бұрын
Levon played a great part
@jjj19513 жыл бұрын
They cut the scene just before Yeager asks, " Got a Beeman's" ?
@19cubbies693 жыл бұрын
Classic line
@SharonCasey-d3w6 ай бұрын
,..and I was so hoping that part would be in this!
@matthewcaughey8898Ай бұрын
That’s a symbol for anyone who’s ever survived a tramautic or life changing event and getting to walk away from it. It’s the smart and tough SOBs who survive things like this. Their reward is to walk away in 1 piece from the smoking wreckage. A bit lighter in the wallet or a bit older in time but nevertheless they walk away from it
@steelwheel-i3s2 ай бұрын
A top secret report released under FOIA revealed the shocking fact that Yeager almost entered geostationary orbit, where he would have been stranded forever.
@MilnerBenedictIII2 жыл бұрын
My third wish is to be allowed to take a flight in an F-16; I want to fly vertically off the ground to an altitude of 60 thousand feet; my reason for this wish is because I was heavily influenced by the bravery and repeated successes of Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager. Chuck Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia... and he was and always will be a good man.
@331SVTCobra3 жыл бұрын
0:29 he has a regular helmet with an oxygen mask. 2:59 he has a space helmet... what dark magic is this???
@maxlobry45083 жыл бұрын
Stark's nanotechnologies😂
@Michael-wy2iz3 жыл бұрын
Bad continuity girl.
@PrinceLotor Жыл бұрын
2:26 - American altimeters: Ours go to 11.
@robertodeleon-gonzalez9844 Жыл бұрын
"Is that a man?" You bet he was! R.I.P., Chuck Yeager, Sir!
@chrissinclair44429 ай бұрын
This is part of the ending to season 3, episode 10, For All Mankind... for those who haven't figured it out. Ed Baldwin as Chuck Yeager.
@timfremstad34346 ай бұрын
This is my most favorite manly movie
@hullababy1233 жыл бұрын
Everybody is like RIP Chuck Yeager, and I'm just here because of the show "Archer"
@007.M-D6 ай бұрын
Yup ! You damn right it is .
@nintendianajones643 ай бұрын
Mark Kelly for Vice President!
@Jeffgordonfan24hesthegoat Жыл бұрын
Rip the stunt man who didn’t not live
@DenitaArnold5 ай бұрын
2024: As much as I dislike some parts of this film, this scene is one of my favorites. I was a baby when the Mercury program was going on, having been born a month to the day after John Glenn made his historic flight
@madamesatan57613 жыл бұрын
R.I.P.
@wanderowa2 жыл бұрын
The novel is telling it more interesting.
@goranpetkovic7109 Жыл бұрын
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@wolfie3657 Жыл бұрын
POV: You just destroyed a very expensive craft
@NostalgicGamerRickOShay10 ай бұрын
The movie made it look like it was a joyride, but in reality, this was an official test, with political and military observers and everything.
@deadendfriends1975Ай бұрын
Chewing the Beeman's 😢❤
@SeanP71953 жыл бұрын
4:10 is when the stuntman got killed.
@paulferkul64662 жыл бұрын
check-six.com/Crash_Sites/TheRightStuff-Svec.htm
@TempleofAmon6663 жыл бұрын
Great scene, though I wish they showed how it really went down.
@TempleofAmon6663 жыл бұрын
Also RIP to the stuntman who died filming this scene.
@TempleofAmon6663 жыл бұрын
He didn’t set an altitude record in a plane that day. He did set a record for the highest altitude bail out. Only the second time he had to eject. The other was is ww2. There is a sight dedicated to the plane. It goes into detail on the accident. How Yeager was actually at fault. He wasn’t punished because he was a superstar but was forbidden from trying to set any more records. Also this wasn’t a joyride like it was portrayed, it was an official attempt to break the Russian record. Also Ridley was long dead by then, he died in tokyo years before.
@rickystevison Жыл бұрын
A God in breaking record s , love you 😍 ❤️ 😘 💖 💕
@jerryavalos96105 ай бұрын
It was extremely difficult to recover from a F-104 flat spin, pilots were instructed to eject if that happened.
@scarybaldguy17 күн бұрын
Flat spin recovery in any aircraft is damn near impossible. There just isn't enough airflow over the control surfaces.
@Shadpheonix200510 ай бұрын
At what altitude did he eject from the plane?
@da40flyer6 ай бұрын
As great as this scene is, there's a big glaring problem. This crash occurred in 1963. Jack Ridley died in 1957.
@TempleofAmon66627 күн бұрын
Also it wasn’t a joyride by Yeager. It was an official record attempt.
@源太郎-h1n3 жыл бұрын
Higher, higher, or faster, faster. They simply challenge difficult goals. why? They may be charred and die. The reason may be that their challenge will realize a bright future for humankind. In Japanese. 高く、高く、あるいは速く、さらに速く。 挑戦者達は、ただ一筋に困難な目標に挑む。 なぜ? 黒焦げになって死ぬかもしれないのに。 挑戦のその先に、人類の輝かしい未来の実現があるからこそ、なのかもしれない。
@flyboymb2 ай бұрын
Showing Icarus how it's done.
@ThomasHathaway-ft9fu4 ай бұрын
The best!
@TempleofAmon6663 жыл бұрын
Jack Ridley was long dead before this happened.
@bryanhamby49605 ай бұрын
Who's the best pilot you ever saw?
@SCharlesDennicon Жыл бұрын
2022 remake : - Is that a person who identifies as a man? - You're damn right it is!
@DenitaArnold11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the laugh. I needed it today 😂🤣🤣
@Shadpheonix200510 ай бұрын
😂
@bearwoody2 жыл бұрын
"Ecce homo"
@danielfolk52662 жыл бұрын
Independence Day ripped off 4:40
@trottheblackdog3 жыл бұрын
Who came over here from the Grim Reapers video?
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
Send Sukhoi 57 to reinforce stealth
@MrMLD1972 Жыл бұрын
❤
@econecoff1725 Жыл бұрын
Instant tan.
@themocaw3 жыл бұрын
Too high. Too fast. Too late.
@RebeccaCampbell196911 ай бұрын
Bill Conti plagiarized Tchaikovsky’s violín concerto to create the main theme for The Right Stuff, and he won an Oscar I think... But truthfully the new arrangement is what gives these strong scenes more potency... I say well done. But the story behind this, even if it was different ... this movie helps to reminds us of it
@NostalgicGamerRickOShay10 ай бұрын
Bill made something original, and it was rejected, and he was ordered to create something that was both awesome and yet completely last minute at the same time. Bill did what he had to do.
@RebeccaCampbell19693 ай бұрын
Hollywood… At least it was not made by “the Weinstein productions”, like the new Star Wars
@nintendianajones643 ай бұрын
I just listened to the ENTIRE Tchaikovsky concerto for 35 minutes waiting to hear the plagerization you were referring to. And I heard nothing like this score. Bullshit.
@markbeames7852 Жыл бұрын
That's not an F-104
@g.rogowski24623 жыл бұрын
Saw this when i was a kid. Always bugged me that he didn't make it out. I don't condone martyrdom / fanaticism based upon patriotism. But i do respect choosing which ever way one should check out.