To my surprise, Yeager is still alive - aged 97. Hell of a long life for a test pilot! A VERY distinguished life, too - he ended up as Brigadier General, and retired in 1975. So he's been retired longer than (I would guess) most of the viewers of this channel have been alive! Amazing to think what his life has been like - born in 1923, flew in WW2, first man to break the sound barrier, flew all those weird/mad planes of the early jet/rocket times (and survived), and then retired almost half a century ago (only technically retired, though, he did more in his 'retirement' than most of us do in our whole lives). Chuck Yeager, we salute you.

@donjones4719

3 жыл бұрын

In his teens and early adulthood there were plenty of people around who remembered the news of the Wright brother's first flight. And even later - Orville Wright was still alive when Yeager broke the sound barrier! Chuck spanned that to SR-71, Concorde, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and so many other events.

@zachreyhelmberger894

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@fredpinczuk7352

3 жыл бұрын

Suggest reading his biography. Worth every page. www.amazon.com/Yeager-Autobiography-Chuck/dp/0553256742 Also little trivial fact. In the movie "the right stuff" 1983, He played a cameo role as the bar owner shaking his head when he overhears the two Nasa Engineer discuss and dismiss Chuck Yeager (played by Sam Shepard) as not being Educated enough (not a university graduate), and therefore not a qualified for the Gemini space program.

@fromtheflightdeck252

3 жыл бұрын

And...Bud Anderson is also alive too.

@howardmiller5381

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1948 and Yeager's still got 25 years on me.

Yeager’s oxygen system caught fire during the ejection and sent a fireball up the hose of his oxygen mask. Starting a fire inside his helmet. Leaving him with his hair singed off and a burn scar on one side of his head. He was literally going Mach 2 with his hair on fire.

@jsmariani4180

3 жыл бұрын

One would think the fire would have been blown out by the incredible wind.

@Knightfang1

3 жыл бұрын

@@raynic1173 I was using the line from Top Gun where Charlie tells maverick “he wouldn’t be happy unless he was going Mach 2 with his hair on fire” to be funny. Certainly he wasn’t going Mach 2 by the time he ejected. But he almost certainly exceeded Mach 2 when he was accelerating before the zoom climb

@scottabelli3406

3 жыл бұрын

Yeager Damn! that was fun!

@raynic1173

3 жыл бұрын

@@Knightfang1 Ah.

@dmutant2635

3 жыл бұрын

@@raynic1173 Poetic license, ray Nic...:-)

Chuck is an incredible guy. He spent 30 years breaking records, and last broke the sounds barrier in 2012 at the age of 89

@Littlewing1977

3 жыл бұрын

@tinwoods wah wah wah. Everybody's a wacist!

@davidfarmer6515

3 жыл бұрын

Tinwood is a racist so there ya go

@daddyspartanvr

3 жыл бұрын

@tinwoods Source?

Basically just the real life version of Jebediah Kerman.

@kevinshen9391

3 жыл бұрын

Jeb would put some more rockets on there and drive the thing into the ground like a missile

@billytheshoebill5364

3 жыл бұрын

Well hello there

@antonwestergaard5211

3 жыл бұрын

@@billytheshoebill5364 Hi jeb how ya doing

@Mediavidero

3 жыл бұрын

Dude you gave me the daily's laugh hahahah

@billytheshoebill5364

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonwestergaard5211 good you?

Incredible work, thanks for these videos. Here is a fun fact from Wikipedia about the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager : _Two nights before the scheduled date for the flight, Yeager broke two ribs when he fell from a horse. He was worried that the injury would remove him from the mission and reported that he went to a civilian doctor in nearby Rosamond, who taped his ribs._ What a mad lad

@imapaine-diaz4451

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah,, while burning of stress at panchos! the moonlight ride that didn't end so well. ready for business next day though.

Friendly reminder that Chuck Yeager is still alive. This BAMF just won't frickin' die Edit: This comment did not age well. RIP BG Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, Dec 7, 2020

@howardman3926

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to meet him, but I have no idea how I would lol

@Hyperious_in_the_air

3 жыл бұрын

Friendly reminder that he went from being the first to break the sound barrier to watching SR-71's supercruise at mach 3.5+ in less than 16 years

@MattMcIrvin

3 жыл бұрын

@@howardman3926 He's on Twitter!

@phmwu7368

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hyperious_in_the_air And seeing the North American Aviation X-15 going above Mach 6.7

@yowaddup5649

3 жыл бұрын

@@howardman3926 he actively responds on twitter,maybe you can strike up a convo with him over the internet!

"Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beemans?" "Yeah, I think I got me a stick." "Loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later." "Fair enough."

@scottmajor2620

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Johnston best show ever

@heavypen

3 жыл бұрын

The Right Stuff. One of my top 10 favorite films.

@thornefroemming7796

3 жыл бұрын

While it makes for a good dynamic in the movie, in reality Jack Ridley was dead by the time this flight took place. He was the co-pilot of a C-47 which crashed in Japan on March 12, 1957.

@peregreena9046

3 жыл бұрын

@@thornefroemming7796 That's why his appearance at that point in the film is kinda as a ghost. He isn't interacting with Yeager other than by voice, which is ringing with echos from the past. He's just there in Yeager's mind.

@surfinmuso37

3 жыл бұрын

Damn it, now I have to watch it again

Probably the most underrated channel , ever

@FQP-7024

3 жыл бұрын

Actuly there are a very very big amount of other Sci-fi channels out there that do almost the same type of quality with a 10th of what this channel has

@greentea1396

3 жыл бұрын

@@FQP-7024 sci-fi? this accident happen in real life lmao

@limbaksa

3 жыл бұрын

true

@FQP-7024

3 жыл бұрын

@@greentea1396 I know but this type of content is consider CG and I ment it in that kind of way as in this tyoe of content even if it's not real life its amazingly done nonetheless

@jorgewemyss3994

3 жыл бұрын

Probably the highest clouds ever

The last part of the video, of Yeager battling for control of the wayward F-104 as it plummets through the sky before ejecting to save his life was ABSOLUTELY photorealistic! This was like an archival quality restoration of historic footage taken during the actual event. And the choice of music made for a documentary quality presentation of what happened in the skies over Edwards that day, adding to its authenticity. You are very good at what you do lol... Excellent work.

Charles Elwood Yeager, “Chuck” was born on February 13, 1923 in Myra, West Virginia and he died on December 7, 2020 in Los Angeles, California at 97 years old. He was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who on October 14, 1947 flew the experimental Bell X-1, at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 ft, to became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Chuck is referred to by many as one of the greatest pilots of all time.

Chuck stayed with the aircraft trying to recover it for quite a long time. I really thought that first chute would arrest the spin allowing him to recover the plane but it just couldn’t reestablish airflow for the wings and control surfaces to produce lift. If anyone could have recovered that plane, it was Chuck Yeager.

@colorfulsouls4050

Жыл бұрын

He did recover it The engine failed to restart which is honestly hard to watch the struggle just for the engine to fail

@10021walshke

Жыл бұрын

The engine was deliberately shut down as it was over heating at higher attitudes. The over heating was expected.

You are so talented. It's a shame your work is so niche, it just doesn't get the widespread recognition it deserves.

@greentea1396

3 жыл бұрын

there are so many haters on him >:( like, just leave hazegrayart alone. He is just doing what he loves to do

@devindykstra

3 жыл бұрын

@@greentea1396 obviously I love his work and I'm glad he makes what he enjoys. It's just a blessing and a curse.

@OGPatriot03

3 жыл бұрын

I think the world needs more creators providing the highest quality works of art in their respective niches than grey nothing burgers that tend to captivate the masses but really satisfies no individual because it was made to appeal to the broadest audience. We certainly have the population for it now.

@devindykstra

3 жыл бұрын

@@OGPatriot03 oah yeah, that's really true.

@josenotmarichan

3 жыл бұрын

@@greentea1396 he has haters? why? :( his work is amazing....

Plane spin down uncontrollably *insert interstellar music*

@rocketmanlb99

3 жыл бұрын

this is no time for caution

@BraidenRobson

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds slightly different though. Which track is it?

@j0k3r47

3 жыл бұрын

@@BraidenRobson yeah which track?

@Tawan175

Жыл бұрын

This is the music used in this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/onyImbGkmrm1iqg.html&ab_channel=NoCopyrightMusic

@cb7670

Жыл бұрын

@@Tawan175 Thank you! I was looking for this comment.

This makes a wonderful companion to the famous NF-104 scene in The Right Stuff. Chuck Yeager is the GOAT.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Chuck Yeager was actually the chase pilot when Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier in a modified F-86 Sabre. How fitting!

The more I learn about Chuck Yeager and all the machines he flew and incidents he encountered, the more I think, A) How did this guy survive all of these things? B) He really is deserving of all the glory heaped at him, and maybe even a little more. At a time when lots of other pilots died doing a fraction of what he accomplished, he did so much, and lived.

The sun-flair, metal oil-canning on the vehicle, the 'film' dirt artifacts. Most believable, sir. Movie quality stuff!

@johnveld7540

3 жыл бұрын

...clouds above at apogee shouldn’t be there though.

@VoteScientist

3 жыл бұрын

Also background shimmer as light passed through exhaust while taxiing.

@dr_jaymz

3 жыл бұрын

@@VoteScientist yes the distortion isn't quite right but when you watch each one, each step is vastly better. Oddly its the imperfections that make it more perfect.

@oliviamoore3426

3 жыл бұрын

It could be that it’s not supposed to look really real? Just a recreation of the event?

@dr_jaymz

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliviamoore3426 If you look at the attention to detail which is astonishing, then I think we know its supposed to look photo real as comparable footage from the mid 20th century, complete with that technicolor oddness and the lens artefacts. I think its brilliant.

I saw Brigadier General Yeager give a presentation at the Air and Space museum in DC, part of which was a discussion on this incident- there was a camera mounted facing out from the fuselage to record the view of the wing- absolutely amazing anyone could survive it. And he talks about these situations with a clarity and precision as if they had happened yesterday. Amazing times...amazing man

I'm always amazed at the level of detail in these videos. If someone had shown me this video and said it was actual archive footage I would probably have believed them.

@conzmoleman

Жыл бұрын

wait… its not???

I like the shade thrown in the last paragraph of the description: "The crash is depicted in the movie "The Right Stuff." However, the director/writer changed most of the facts/events surrounding the crash. About the only thing they got right was that an F-104 did crash and it was piloted by Yeager."

@aaronsmith8073

3 жыл бұрын

He was shown to have walked away from the crash in the movie the Right Stuff

@regibson23

3 жыл бұрын

Him rolling out impromptu and having ATC be confused is more fun then real life. And then just assuming he has clearance shows that he was a legend.

@MondoRockable

3 жыл бұрын

Yeager himself is actually in The Right Stuff as a cameo - see the scenes at Panchos where "Fred the bartender' asks the suits if they want a whiskey.

@craigwall9536

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronsmith8073 He walked away from the crash because _he wasn't in the airplane_ when it hit. Duh!

@aaronsmith8073

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigwall9536 he bailed out before the plane crashed! Duh!

Yeager is the only airman to become an Air Force general without graduating from a military academy. He was an ace in ww2,and in Korea, he also was in Nam. He is the only pilot to destroy a jet fighter while flying a prop fighter. Towards the end of his final days was sad. His children fought over his money and tried to have him committed into a mental hospital. They did not succeed.

@Ralphie750

3 жыл бұрын

He's still alive...?

@TheRyguy79

Жыл бұрын

He was most definitely not the only pilot with a jet kill in a prop plane, though he was one of the first.

@fullflow1453

Жыл бұрын

He really got god mode in real life

@Jayhawker32

Жыл бұрын

“Yeager is the only airman to become an Air Force general without graduating from a military academy.” That’s not even remotely true, there are plenty of Generals who were ROTC probably several who commissioned through other means as well.

@terrydouglas5008

10 ай бұрын

Yeager was one of the last generals without a college degree.

how the hell do you make these . they are incredible

@sideshowbob5237

3 жыл бұрын

Yes excellent animation. How true to the true trajectory? Do we know?

@GlimmerOfLight

3 жыл бұрын

@@sideshowbob5237 there is (grainy) footage of this, and I am amazed at how accurate the reconstruction here is!

You even got the motions of the plane sorted very credibly, the point where most others fail! A brilliant piece of computer arts, mate!

I highly recommend the movie, The Right Stuff

@biketech60

3 жыл бұрын

He makes a cameo appearance in it as a bartender .

@tejas1205

3 жыл бұрын

@@biketech60 Very similar to the Jim Lovell cameo in Apollo 13

@Mike__G

3 жыл бұрын

I liked that movie until I read what John Glenn had to say about it. While he liked the book, he called the movie, “Laurel and Hardy in space.” BTW, John Glenn was my childhood hero.

@robvilla622

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mike__G I agree completely. The way Gus Grissom was portrayed was shameful.

He just passed away on December 7, 2020. God bless and rest in peace, Chuck.

A flat spin is very hard to get out of. Firing the drag chute was a great way to get some control so he could eject.

@jimmyfreemantle879

3 жыл бұрын

Control was impossible as his engine was out and he had no hydraulic controls. The tailplane was locked in a pitch up setting. Getting the nose down would build up some airspeed and maybe windmill the engine enough for a restart. Unfortunately releasing the drag chute just allowed the aircraft to pitch nose high and resume the spin. Ejection was inevitable

@jim2lane

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyfreemantle879 - so the F-104 had no control surface/hydraulic capabilities in an engine out scenario, but they purposefully sent one into an environment where an engine out scenario was expected? In addition to the fact that the vehicle had no RCS in place to provide a graceful reentry attitude. Were they intentionally trying to get a pilot killed all for an altitude record? 🤔

@jimmyfreemantle879

3 жыл бұрын

@@jim2lane it's not a fact that the a/c had no RCS. In fact the NF104s had hydrogen peroxide RCS thrusters. But I read that the flight profile left little margin for error.. the modified Starfighter had to fly a precise profile and get well above 100000' to ensure the RCS had enough authority to be able to nose the aircraft down to windmill the engine for a restart. More than one nf104 was lost during testing for various reasons. And yes, an engine out was inevitable due to high altitude / oxygen starvation. They even built in nitrogen bottles to pressurise the cockpit as the engine could not provide the bleed air.

@MH-WM

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it can be somewhat difficult at times. I pulled one back one time in my SR-71 at 65,000 feet, thought I was a goner 😮😬

@bravoalpha101st

2 жыл бұрын

@@MH-WM what flight sim were you using?

Often movies and animation have non believable movement and physics. Not this one. Looks like the real deal. Wonderful job.

Please do the "Cornfield Bomber," an F-106 that landed itself after the pilot ejected.

Kelly Johnson: -Please can someone use my fighter plane design as a fighter plane Vladimir Myasishchev: -That plane needs more engines and a mothership with at least twelve engines and also ... more engines. Wile E. Coyote: -My typical workday Germans: -Of course that F-104 had to crash, it's Thursday

I was a young Airman at EAFB Flight Test Center during the NF104 flight program. One thing they didn’t count on with flame out inAB the AB shroud was translated back. When they achieved air start on the way down the AB shroud would automatically translate close. First time the shroud dropped over the fuselage catching. When it air started and translated close it pulled in the empennage like a crushed beer can. We did finally figure out a rigging for the AB to prevent this happening

The problems with the flight were all Yeager's fault. He would not listen to the chief Test pilot for the NF-104a. Climb angle was not 70 degrees and when he got to the 100,000 foot he did not correct the airplane with the thrusters. At that height the plane becomes a space plane not a airplane Look up Lt. Col. Robert Smith web page. He was the chief test pilot. He gives the accurate story . Chuck was good but not with this plane

This is probably going to be an unpopular comment but needs to be mentioned. Reality, is often much different than a lot of the fictions that makes it into movies. Movies are more for entertainment than to tell history.And it is no different than the true facts surrounding the story of this flight. All of my facts can be corroborated on www.nf104.com/ which come from Lt. Col. Robert W. Smith USAF who was on the program. It is a website you can spend a couple of hours reading and be absolutely enthralled. My brief summary of what happened with Yeager is below. To put it bluntly: Yeager screwed the pooch on this flight. He was EXTREMELY fortunate to not have died. USAF PR spin is what kept this mission appearing as a heroic mission instead of what it truly was - a major fuck-up by Yeager. Again, go to the website and read the entire history of the program and Yeager's brief part in it. Yeager, as commandant of the test flight school at Edwards, sort of elbowed his way into the program - that he wasn't invited too - nor was really qualified to be on it. The use of RCS was a major mission parameter of the program and Yeager had limited exposure and training with RCS. Yeager did multiple tests flights before that fateful flight and Smith amongst others were not impressed with Yeager's inability to maintain the required pitch attitude on the zoom. I could be confusing some facts here (I read over the website a few years back) so feel free to review, critique, and rebuke; but as I remember it, Smith said that Yeager waited too late too to shut-down the turbine engine and engage the rocket propulsion motor. The windmilling turbine from the engine, that was shut down too late, created a gyroscopic force that caused precession that the NF104 RCS was unable to overcome. (up in thin air the control surfaces are ineffective. RCS is the only way to control) This caused the unrecoverable flat spin. The thing that really pissed off all the engineers and scientists working on the program was: Yeager had no business being in the program and when the top brass with the USAF got wind that their poster boy /golden child was nearly killed, they shut the program down. Then the USAF media arm made sure they painted Yeager as a hero and it was the plane and the program that nearly killed him. There should've been a board of inquiry but to my knowledge, no such thing occurred. The Air Force wanted it to quietly go away. Mostly because of Cold War politics and the USSR could use Yeager's fuck-up as good anti-American propaganda. As for the guys putting in all their hard work, time, and energy into the program, they were just starting to get really good and interesting data and really starting to understand transitioning from traditional flight atmospheric control to RCS control in a near vacuum environment. Yeager's little stunt for further self-glorification ended what was a truly interesting scientific endeavor. It's no surprise to some why the name "Yeager" doesn't sit well to some people. Smith stopped short of name calling and so forth, but you can tell in his tone that he didn't care too much for Yeager because of that stunt. I want to categorically state, everything above does not take-away from any and all of Yeager's other accomplishments and exploits. He was truly a gifted and talented pilot. He just wasn't qualified to participate in the NF-104 program.

I met Gen. Yeager way back in 1987 at Beale A.F.B. I had just finished reading his autobiography and of course he was in the AC Delco battery commercials at that time. That was the first and only time I got to meet a true American Hero.

Love the old film effect on videos to give them that retro look.

The explanation in the Right Stuff book was that when the engine spooled down at the peak of the climb the elevator lost its hydraulics to change the angle of attack and the peroxide thrusters in the nose were insufficient to push the nose down. He did try the braking chute to get the nose down and get the engine started but when he released the chute the nose went back up as it still didn't have any hydraulic pressure. And that was that.

@kyleboatright7403

3 жыл бұрын

The explanation by the guy who managed the program and SUCCESSFULLY flew the NF-104 to well above the height Yeager achieved was that Chuck was a stick and rudder pilot, not a "fly this exact profile" pilot and didn't fly the profile accurately. According to him, Yeager got the aircraft so slow at the apogee of the flight that he stalled/spun, and that was the end of that. The reason he got so slow was that he didn't pitch the aircraft to the appropriate angle on the initial climb pitch-up (the climb to high altitude started from level flight at ~M2 and 35K', from memory). That robbed him of potential altitude, then Yeager compounded the problem by "chasing" the climb angle. So he ended up in no-man's land, where neither the aerodynamic or reaction controls could right the ship before losing control.

Love your work

I first knew the hero in a PC flight sim in the 90s, chuck yeager's air combat, fell in love quickly.

This is the level of simulation I hope to see more of in the future. The unseen battle for survival is much more compelling when watching the event unfold like this. The added details from the comment section make this absolutely wonderful!

Man that soundtrack just makes it feel even more intense watching this

RIP Chuck Yeager, this day of December 7th 2020. A great American and hero.

The right stuff did this scene too.

Beautiful footage. I like that you added the scratches and defects you'd find in older film. It's near perfect. I would ask you displayed the altitude in the corner. It'd be nice to know exactly how high he got the Starfighter, and at what altitude he opted to eject due to the flat spin. Either way, WELL DONE!

This is like a beginner RC airplane where you only have rudder and elevator authority, except this is a big metal dart.

Ah... so many instagram pages reposting this video with no credit as "real footage"

Wow, the visuals are incredible. This video + narration = I would be speechless and this channel would become legendary...

"Catch a falling Star-fighter, and put it in the pocket of your jeans. You can us it as a cigarette lighter, or to open up a can of beans..." Captain Lockheed and the Star-fighters The F-104 G had such an abysmal record that a band wrote an entire album dedicated to the folly. Each song details some aspect of the engineering, politics and foolishness that was the F-104 G!

The F104 Starfighter earned "The Widowmaker" nickname for a reason

From the moment the spin starts, it's good enough to pass for real footage.

Hi "Hazegrayart", Professional pilot for nearly all of my working life (ATP ending with King Air 360ER - 9000+ hours) and familiar with most aspects of flight yet your video really impressed me. Flight can, indeed, be hazardous. Excellent animated presentation and an equally great sound track. All the very best to you and yours, Terry

Wow that's a beautiful animation. hats off.

Charles Elwood „Chuck“ Yeager 1923 - 2020 Godspeed Chuck!

I viewed the original footage that was of course in very poor resolution but my memory suggests that this must be a wonderfully clear and accurate reproduction or enhancement of that original footage. kudos

Hey this was really great! I had seen the movie "the right stuff" in the 80's and knew much about Chuck Yeager, However I didn't know the F-104 starfighter he crashed was modified with a rocket! I had always assumed it was a normal F-104! Just goes to show how a movie can distort real history!

Chuck Yeager passed away this month on 7th Dec 2020. A true legend!

I read Yeager's autobiography and that man has lived through wild stuff!

The plane had to crash. The rocket motor propelled the plane to 100,000 feet where the jet engine had long since failed due to the thin air. When the rocket engine burned out, there was no propulsion left, and the flat spin began.

Yeagar went from flying the first supersonic prototype to flying production jets that did twice that speed in his lifetime.

Great animation, but a technically inaccurate representation of the flight. The takeoff and climb was normal until 40,000 feet after which he went to full afterburner and began his test profile. At 60,000 feet the rocket motor was ignited. FYI, there were no clouds after 40,000 feet that day. Just clear air. Above 65,000 feet the sky is nearly black, not blue. At 78,000 feet he shut off the jet engine to prevent overheat. At 100,000 feet the rocket engine was cut off. The rest was coasting on momentum. Why did he go into a flat spin? His pitch angle was too shallow. At or above 100,000 feet the planes control surfaces (rudder, elevators, and ailerons) are no longer effective due to the thin atmosphere. In place of them, the plane had reaction control thrusters. However, these do not become effective until above 110,000 feet due to the remaining atmospheric resistance. The plane only reached 104,000 feet (not 108,700). Without flight controls he re-entered the lower atmosphere at an angle which evolved into a flat spin. In a flat spin there is not enough aerodynamic pressure entering the engine intakes to restart the engine. The glide ratio of an unpowered F-104 has been described as equivalent to a set of car keys. To Yeager's credit, he remained cool and collected, tried everything to recover, and only bailed out at the last possible second.

Your work is fantastic! You have an eye for cinematography. I started following you a few days ago. What do you use to render these animations?

This is some top shelf Hollywood cinematic quality work!!! VERY WELL DONE & HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AS WELL!!!

Ah yes, the F-104. The “Missile with a man in it” First US fighter to break Mach 2.

Jet planes climbing at very high altitudes are in danger of seizing engines. That is because of very cold temperatures at high altitudes. Once the engine seizes because of lack of oxygen to burn the fuel, the rushing sub-zero cold air as the plane plunges towards the ground can freeze the engine very quickly and prevent it from restarting because the turbines are stuck and won't move. Unfortunately, this has happened also to one of the passenger planes which was supposed to be delivered to the airline company and was unoccupied by the passengers at the time of the accident. The two pilots decided to test the maximum altitude that the plane is capable of reaching, even to exceed it if possible. They reached more than 42,000 feet which was beyond that aircraft's maximum operating altitude. The two engines both seized and froze immediately so that they could not restart it. The plane crashed and killed the two pilots and the crews on board.

that was some real cinematic quality renderings right there. You are one hell of a qualified visual artist. also source link broke

@jackdundon2261

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed now we have seen a super-stall.

Brilliant! Even more than usual 😊. I believe that alternative history version of this crash was the opening scene of Stephen Baxter's 'The Voyage'.

Just beautiful. Awesome work. Thx.

Today a legend passed on... Feel bad cus I have been a admirer of his for 40 years

This video is underrated

it was genius to use brsking parachute to lower the falling speed of the plane

@russdill

3 жыл бұрын

My impression was that it was an attempt to get the nose down and recover from the spin

@tachyonicnewt2473

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a little of both

@jimmyfreemantle879

3 жыл бұрын

@@russdill absolutely right! He had no engine so the need to get the nose down was really to force some air into the intake duct to windmill the engine RPM enough to restart the engine..without it he had no controls and ejection was inevitable

@ElsinoreRacer

3 жыл бұрын

@@russdill ...and getting the turbine to turn as it drove the control system hydraulics....

And behind the magnificent plane, the genius, Mr Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. Time of héroes! Respect!

Beautifully rendered

Massively incredibly detailed perfect retelling of the amazing and turbulent transition of USAF/Navy/Marine pilots to NASA astronauts....an enormous paradigm shift

What’s the music?

Chuck Yeager have the right stuff. He was also the test pilot for the space shuttle.

Rip to Yeager 7 December 👨‍✈️ 👇

WOW Control surface movement - I can see it. "Inertia coupling". This is how they learned.

How accurate is this simulation? Was there some sort of ‘black box’ that recorded the inputs and movements and altitude that informed your recreation? Fascinating to watch

Can some one explain to me how this was filmed , why were they filming at this exact time or was this a deliberate flat spin stall and practice ejection trial. Absolute legend was Chuck Yeager such feats of bravery, pushed extremes

but most importantly, Chuck Yeager survives i don't careabout the plane crash, at least the pilot survives

Technically, it was an NF-104 as shown by the integrated rocket engine.

Dude what is the music in this video? It’s epic!

When I did my military service, some said the 104 Starfighter was like a chimney pipe. Pilots said you could crash a 104 and it would still be ok to fly.

RIP General Yeager....you will not be forgotten

The old saying "There are Old Pilots, there are bold pilots but there are no old, bold pilots" is wrong in General Yeager's case. He is the boldest of the bold and at 97 certainly is old. Mega salute to the guy with lots of "The Right Stuff"!!!

Are we sure that wasn't Captain John Christopher climbing to intercept the Enterprise?

The way this was filmed in the "Right Stuff" was poorly done and confusing. You sir are a total artist and I wish we could insert this into "RS" Chuck's collision with his ejection seat and it's lava setting a pure oxygen fire inside his helmet is one for the books!

General Yeager is still flying. Can y'all dig it!! Air force legend

That was a time when a lot of things were unknown territory. Space and inertia act very differently from what we expected then. For one the super thin atmosphere that high up strains conventional aircraft to control themselves. The F 104 was built for pure speed and had a huge engine for its size with a lot of spinning mass. I bet this experiment would have worked better with twin counter rotating engines but the cost of such a craft or modifying an existing craft would have been astronomical even then. We were trying to break altitude records with what we knew then and well, the craft hit 108 thousand feet which is almost breaking the atmosphere. Got to hand it to Chuck Yeager, he was not afraid to try crazy stunts to test technology. He also managed to walk away from the crash and not kill anyone on the ground. He held out as long as practical trying to save his ship. Flat Spins are hard to recover from and the F-104 without its engine had no spin Recovery at all. But still, he had one hell of an elevator ride some of us wish we could have taken!!! Into the wild blue beyond!!! Thank God and the Germans for the Ejector Seat aye???

@kyleboatright7403

3 жыл бұрын

The experiment worked just fine when the aircraft was flown properly. Chuck didn't in this instance. But remember, this was fairly early jet age dangerous stuff. They willingly pushed the boundaries of flight on a routine basis, and when you push the boundaries, sometimes you meet the demon

@KingOfAllAnimals

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyleboatright7403 The Devil who hides in the details has many friends. That is the whole thing about pushing the unknown. No one knows what to expect. Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition.

For three years I marched past the ass-end of one of these in perfect operating condition three times a day at Marine Military Academy, which had only a four-foot chain link fence separating the Mess Hall from the portion of the Harlingen Airport that served as the base for the (then-named) Confederate Air Force, or CAF, which owned it. Fifi, the last flying B-29, was right next to it.

Wow, just wow. Not to take from Yeager, the Man, and the legend, but this work is stellar.

The flat spin is not gentle as portrayed here. You left out the part of the seat ejection rocket catching his face on fire and nearly suffocating him and when he funnels air into his helmet to breathe it makes the fire more intense and burns his hands. And when he gets to the ground he neatly gathers his parachute as proper military conduct mandates. Other than that, it’s a good video, except the tail rocket was for at altitude with no air to burn.

Charles Elwood Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) 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.

While taking nothing away from Yeager, very few people know that Captain Eric Brown Royal Navy was Britain's most famous test pilot whose exploits easily matched those of Yeager.

Insane how long he stayed with the plane

If Yeager couldn’t take that 104 out of a spin, ain’t no one could. Nice animation, BTW.

Great simulation of what happened to Chuck. Unfortunately, there is no film about it because he made it against the law, without permission.

Anything higher than 80,000 feet requires more than mach 3 to control with wings that small. Otherwise not enough force to work against with control surfaces.

Awesome graphics! Is this DCS? Thanks

Here is a guy who tried everything under his control to prevent a failure and yet, managed to bail out at the last second and somehow survive.... He is that rare combo of both brave and Lucky that is the unique "ghost" that the USA has been haunted by since it has been conceived. Is it fate? or Destiny? We don't know. We just THANK GOD!

Just to think that a $3 microcontroller from 2023 could save a million dollar rocket plane

More realistic than in the right stuff as you can see he tries to control the pitch with the RCS but because the initial angle of attack was too high he could not pitch down and the giroscopic effect of the engine windmilling took the plane in uncontrollable spin

The piece of art and asmr