Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff F104 crash

[@Vesnicie]

RIP to the manliest man who ever manned manfully.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

You forgot "manually". 😢😅

[@matthewcaughey8898]

Balls of a metal so hard science has yet to figure out what it is

[@wacobob56dad]

“Sir, over there. Is that a man ?.” “You’re damn right it is”. Gets me every time.

[@jton6852]

One of the best lines of all fucking time.

[@richspinaci8293]

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]

Gets me too

[@brigadier-tc8565]

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.

[@anw712]

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

[@Bobcatflyfish]

@@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

[@hoorayforhawksbills]

They did. Several X-15 pilots were awarded Astronaut wings.

[@matt_548vnd4]

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

[@ianmangham4570]

Two 6000LB rocketdyne boosters 😎 1:36 1:54

[@KabukiKid]

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)

[@cgilleybsw]

wtf? rip.

[@davidallbaugh6858]

Thanks, I did not know that.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

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 :(

[@emilypound]

One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Spectacular

[@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx]

There are old pilots. And there are bold pilots. But there are never old, bold pilots. Chuck. You've made that exception. RIP

[@Packless1]

...many times he risked a lot, but he never risked too much...!

[@Michael-wy2iz]

Have to read the book to know why he was burned

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

John Gleen be like WTF i went into space at age 77 i am not the exception too.

[@Contractnik]

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.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

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

[@davidallbaugh6858]

It is an irony that Chuck Yeager outlived Sam Shepherd.

[@iaiband]

Stalling at 100k feet , falling into a flat spin and walking away from it is a feat of super human ability

[@dijonstreak]

man....NO KIDDING 1!! to say the least. !! WOW. !!

[@johnstratton7470]

Damm right it is 👍

[@edd4816]

Also super human luck to be fair

[@dq1275]

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

[@matth4053]

yeah this movie scene doesn't do this event or Yeager's bravery and resilience justice.

[@LavaLampBlob]

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]

@@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]

How is it possible for a man to keep a such a cool head when his helmet is on fire??

[@chezsnailez]

correction, balls of spun-cast titanium...

[@briantethers9430]

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!

[@spacecat7247]

I bet that was cool as hell!

[@cgilleybsw]

I miss the dessert...

[@jcraigshelton]

RIP General Yeager. You represented the best of the United States of America. The best there ever was.

[@peregrinec5477]

Icarus flying too close the sun...I love the imagery. Damn... What a badass this man was.

[@edd4816]

Yeager seeing that glimpse of the stars through the rarefied atmosphere never fails to give me chills

[@jimhirsch4482]

40 years since its initial release. Still the best movie I have ever seen. IMHO!!

[@ellenroehl6022]

The book is even better!

[@T.S.Birkby]

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 🍺

[@billsargent3407]

But he's is looking about.. just to see... what needs a check out...

[@sharoncasey92]

Sam Shepherd as Yaeger-talk about casting perfection.

[@chrisdonaldson2497]

This is 100% my favourite moment in any film ever

[@majormediaproductions]

Ya damn skippy that's a man 🛩️🏁🛩️🏁🛩️🏁 R.I.P. Chuck Yeager💐

[@ForgottenHonor0]

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.

[@Heffro2010]

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]

I would hardly describe him as ignored.

[@garypounder3592]

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]

The chair broke his mask exposing his oxygen supply to flame. This was his last test flight.

[@Wolf_Dominic]

I gotta say, it’s quite the one to go out on.

[@pb6513]

To slip the surely bonds of earth and touch the face of God. RIP Chuck.

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

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.

[@Hunpecked]

Getting down isn't the hard part. 🙂

[@goober208]

he considered astronauts SPAM IN A CAN

[@wolfeyes9357]

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!

[@doyleperkins4916]

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.

[@ianmangham4570]

When I was a young guy I thought this was the best thing I'd ever seen on TV

[@SharonCasey-d3w]

To really appreciate it, you just have to see it on the big screen. Yowza!

[@ratcapricorn1895]

I just remembered how this scene stayed in my head from back then!

[@lewisjones4158]

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

[@timfremstad3434]

Royal Dano sounded like he had peanut butter in his mouth when he sang that

[@csantoi]

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.

[@timfremstad3434]

Top Gun is a joke....the only thing I ever liked about it was the opening, Top Gun 2 is a bigger joke,

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Chuck and Sam are sharing a cold one somewhere.

[@riddick729]

I have seen a lot of movies in my life. Many have had that "i did it" moment. This one, just takes the cake.

[@themadlad8540]

Jesus:God is that a man God:Dam right it is

[@michaelmerritt7406]

And for a few seconds, Chuck Yaeger touched the sky.

[@ヤス-b3r]

This is the pride of a man who stayed true to himself without giving in. I really like people like this.

[@fletsepopje]

"Sir, over there, is that a man?" "No, that's a legend." RIP General, blue skies

[@pilotguy576]

The best pilot anyone ever saw.

[@philipreichert4284]

I had the very good fortune to meet and talk with this Legend of the Heavens. A gentlemens, gentleman.

[@domwoodhouse2383]

God rest your soul, Chuck Yeager

[@richardsmyth305]

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]

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

[@allisonjohnson6399]

The image of the stars coming into view is embedded in my mind forever

[@ursomrano542]

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.

[@nightbird7075]

F-104A Starfighter 💯🔥. In Belgium 🇧🇪 we had the F-104G and we flew those babies until 1983.

[@patrickforrest3109]

Indeed Chuck is the best test pilot who inspired many to follow R.I.P General Chuck Yager.

[@gpapa31]

At least he didn’t walk into a diner asking where he is.

[@Michael-wy2iz]

Such a simple scene but so dramatic..I think the music.

[@JDLamps1]

His balls of steel tipped the bird over

[@dodgedude908]

Anyone else get chills just from hearing the engine spool up before takeoff?

[@alanhelton]

RIP you man of men!

[@cgilleybsw]

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!...

[@wacobob56dad]

Best part of the movie.

[@peteman8160]

Yes

[@vitorcampos2314]

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-fs6pi]

Chuck Yeager was a great,great man

[@philipastore7706]

I think I see a Plane that's got my name on it!!! Amen Chuck...:o)

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

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]

Another nickname for the F-104: “missile with a man in it.”

[@EddieFelson777]

Always get goosebumps watching this scene

[@gezag.hanniker1940]

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.

[@scarybaldguy]

101 was the Voodoo. 102 was the Dagger.

[@dijonstreak]

WOW. !! WHAT A HELLUVA DOCUMENTARY...FELT i was actually experiecing this !!... how in the heck did they film this...way AWESOME. ~~.

[@shashank084]

I came here after Top gun: Maverick.

[@jednick]

One of many inaccuracies in the movie. Col. Ridley had been killed in an airplane crash six years before this happened.

[@gordonhall9871]

Levon played a great part

[@jjj1951]

They cut the scene just before Yeager asks, " Got a Beeman's" ?

[@19cubbies69]

Classic line

[@SharonCasey-d3w]

,..and I was so hoping that part would be in this!

[@matthewcaughey8898]

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-i3s]

A top secret report released under FOIA revealed the shocking fact that Yeager almost entered geostationary orbit, where he would have been stranded forever.

[@MilnerBenedictIII]

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.

[@331SVTCobra]

0:29 he has a regular helmet with an oxygen mask. 2:59 he has a space helmet... what dark magic is this???

[@maxlobry4508]

Stark's nanotechnologies😂

[@Michael-wy2iz]

Bad continuity girl.

[@PrinceLotor]

2:26 - American altimeters: Ours go to 11.

[@robertodeleon-gonzalez9844]

"Is that a man?" You bet he was! R.I.P., Chuck Yeager, Sir!

[@chrissinclair4442]

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.

[@timfremstad3434]

This is my most favorite manly movie

[@hullababy123]

Everybody is like RIP Chuck Yeager, and I'm just here because of the show "Archer"

[@007.M-D]

Yup ! You damn right it is .

[@nintendianajones64]

Mark Kelly for Vice President!

[@Jeffgordonfan24hesthegoat]

Rip the stunt man who didn’t not live

[@DenitaArnold]

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

[@madamesatan5761]

R.I.P.

[@wanderowa]

The novel is telling it more interesting.

[@goranpetkovic7109]

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[@wolfie3657]

POV: You just destroyed a very expensive craft

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

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.

[@deadendfriends1975]

Chewing the Beeman's 😢❤

[@SeanP7195]

4:10 is when the stuntman got killed.

[@paulferkul6466]

check-six.com/Crash_Sites/TheRightStuff-Svec.htm

[@TempleofAmon666]

Great scene, though I wish they showed how it really went down.

[@TempleofAmon666]

Also RIP to the stuntman who died filming this scene.

[@TempleofAmon666]

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]

A God in breaking record s , love you 😍 ❤️ 😘 💖 💕

[@jerryavalos9610]

It was extremely difficult to recover from a F-104 flat spin, pilots were instructed to eject if that happened.

[@scarybaldguy]

Flat spin recovery in any aircraft is damn near impossible. There just isn't enough airflow over the control surfaces.

[@Shadpheonix2005]

At what altitude did he eject from the plane?

[@da40flyer]

As great as this scene is, there's a big glaring problem. This crash occurred in 1963. Jack Ridley died in 1957.

[@TempleofAmon666]

Also it wasn’t a joyride by Yeager. It was an official record attempt.

[@源太郎-h1n]

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。

[@flyboymb]

Showing Icarus how it's done.

[@ThomasHathaway-ft9fu]

The best!

[@TempleofAmon666]

Jack Ridley was long dead before this happened.

[@bryanhamby4960]

Who's the best pilot you ever saw?

[@SCharlesDennicon]

2022 remake : - Is that a person who identifies as a man? - You're damn right it is!

[@DenitaArnold]

Thanks for the laugh. I needed it today 😂🤣🤣

[@Shadpheonix2005]

😂

[@bearwoody]

"Ecce homo"

[@danielfolk5266]

Independence Day ripped off 4:40

[@trottheblackdog]

Who came over here from the Grim Reapers video?

[@doyleperkins4916]

Send Sukhoi 57 to reinforce stealth

[@MrMLD1972]

❤

[@econecoff1725]

Instant tan.

[@themocaw]

Too high. Too fast. Too late.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

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

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

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.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

Hollywood… At least it was not made by “the Weinstein productions”, like the new Star Wars

[@nintendianajones64]

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]

That's not an F-104

[@g.rogowski2462]

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.

[@AN_PVS-2]

He definitely survived...