*This film has been made using in-game footage from DCS WORLD by Eagle Dynamics. Original soundtrack, sound and visual effects have been added for historical accuracy and dramatic purposes.* Hello everyone! DCS: THE RIGHT STUFF (12 minutes) took me 2 years and 210 shots to complete, and is made in memory of the great Chuck Yeager. It's also dedicated to the entire DCS World community. As The Right Stuff original feature film from 1983 is one of my favorite movie of all time, I always wanted to know what really happened to Yeager during his zoom climb attempt with the NF-104A 56-762 on December 10, 1963... 59 years ago today!!! As an editor/director IRL, and with the powerful graphics and camera tools from DCS World, I saw a great opportunity to deliver a story that could make you, the audience, understand a little bit better what was the feeling of being a test pilot during the 60s. With quite a lot of historical research, and with the precious help from the VSN team, we managed to deliver a nice NF-104A Mod with accurate skins for DCS :) Again, I can't thank you enough for your precious support , it means a lot to me. Special thanks go to the mighty VSN team and all my cast and crew. And with the icing on the cake, the movie is narrated by the great Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello from The Fighter Pilot Podcast. Have a good time, guys. Hope you'll enjoy. Fly safe, fly Metal. Cheers from France ++ 00:00:00 : Prologue 00:01:00 : The NF-104A 00:01:55 : Taxi 00:02:38 : Take-Off 00:03:20 : In-Flight 00:04:11 : Mach 1 00:04:49 : Mach 2 00:05:17 : Zoom Climb Part.1 00:06:22 : Zoom Climb Part.2 00:07:20 : Reentry 00:08:09 : Flat Spin 00:09:09 : Drag Chute & Ejection 00:10:18 : Epilogue 00:11:30 : Credits Directed & Edited by J.P. FERRE Narrated by VINCENT "Jell-O" AIELLO from The Fighter Pilot Podcast - www.fighterpilotpodcast.com Chuck Yeager: JAMES "Firehouse" TAYLOR Ground Control: JOSEPH "Buccaneer" GIESE Bud Anderson: TIMOTHY "Emerald" FRERKING Edwards ATC: RAPTOR DAD GAMING - www.youtube.com/@RaptorDad Music composed by ALEXIS MAINGAUD - www.alexismaingaud.com/ "The Right Stuff" original theme by BILL CONTI Color Grading by EDOUARD POTIER Visual Effects by J.P. FERRE - IIW STUDIO Sound Mix by LIONEL GUENOUN - VEGA PROD NF-104A Mod provided by VSN NF-104A liveries created by JOCKO417 Special thanks to CDPKOBRA, PEEJOTT17 and RAZO+R VSN Discord "Century Series": discord.gg/DW5fpPRXac VSN Discord "Flyable Mods": discord.gg/WTne76umfn DCS World by Eagle Dynamics: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ LUX Studio: luxstudio.fr IIW STUDIO: www.iiwstudio.fr VEGA PROD: www.vega-prod.com Thank you for watching. Like, share & subscribe. Visit: www.jp-ferre.com

@verticalflyingb737

Жыл бұрын

2 years for 12 minutes.. imagine how long you'd need to make a Top Gun-level full film!

@JPFerre

Жыл бұрын

@@verticalflyingb737 Well, 2 years working for this project only on my free time available, that explains a lot ;) Enjoy! ++

@fabiotuzzi3724

Жыл бұрын

@@JPFerre Very nice video super!! Italy flown the starfighter up to 2004, hope to see it as a official module in DCS one day..... Cheers

@aldenfriend9625

Жыл бұрын

Can we download the mod? The NF104? With the RCS and rocket and everything?

@veritasardens6547

Жыл бұрын

Nice 3-D simulation using DCS but isn't the transonic region before Mach 1?, why does he say "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region" after passing Mach 1 as shown by the Mach meter?. I guess that you could have shown the Mach meter passing mach 1 AFTER Chuck said "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region". Correct me if I am wrong about the transonic region.

There's a reason why The Right Stuff won an Oscar for best original score.

Outstanding!

@JPFerre

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt and everyone at Eagle Dynamics :)

@Forza55_

Жыл бұрын

No way its wags from eagle dynamics

@LtRiot

Жыл бұрын

@@Forza55_ In this NF-104A video, we'll touch on what it was like to fly with big giant American balls.

@imightbehum4n414

Жыл бұрын

Would you guys allow this to be a module?

@frappechirurgicale7662

Жыл бұрын

Good Job Jp ! Vidéo bien cool 👍

It’s honestly astonishing that General Yeager lived as long as he did. He served in so much combat, in so many different frames, tested so many different dangerous experimentals, and pulled so many stunts that he truly was a statistical anomaly of the most extreme variety.

@s0nnyburnett

Жыл бұрын

truly a man's man

@schwedenify

Жыл бұрын

Fantastisch 🤗👍👍👍👍

@snoproblem

10 ай бұрын

...oh, and the first to bust the sound barrier.

@aidanshelton4491

10 ай бұрын

@@snoproblem Exactly

@Pwj579

6 ай бұрын

He addressed this a few times in interviews saying he was both "lucky" and very focused on what the plane was telling him, especially given his background as an aviation mechanic.

I was astonished when told by a flight line engineer attached to the NF-104 project that the flat spin was actually part of the planned, normal mission profile. The idea was to take the aircraft up to max altitude and speed on the engine until it flamed out and then ignite the rocket engine and climb until the fuel exhausted. The reaction control jets were never intended to do more than minor adjustments to pitch, roll and yaw at max altitude. I believe that they only put out about 100-200 newtons of force. By comparison, punching someone as hard and fast as you can with your bare hand creates several thousand newtons. After rocket fuel was exhausted, the pilot was expected to take the NF-104A into a flat spin and attempt to relight the jet engine once the altitude was down to around 30,000 feet or so. That left basically seconds of safety margin if the engine did not relight, and the normal F-104s J-79 engines were known to have engine relight “challenges”. F-104s tend to fall like a rock when thrust is lost. It does not really glide. Thrust keeps it aloft. It takes the steady hand of an expert pilot to keep them in the air. The same engineer told me that the first time they tried this, they found that the tail feathers of the engine and the aft fuselage had been crushed like a beer can into a cone shape. The NF-104A must have almost looked like it had two nose cones. One in the front, one under the tail. Support structures had to be reworked to prevent it from happening again. Three NF-104As were created. One crashed, one had an engine explosion but still landed safely. No one dared to take the third up much more after that, because of all rather obvious the “holes” in the flight performance envelope. Extremely dangerous in all respects, even for a planned, normal mission, but it was the best semi-out-of-the-box tech solution we had at the time to explore high altitude aircraft performance until other dedicated aircraft could be designed and created.

I had the great good fortune to be stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in 1966 and 67, and I actually had an opportunity to get up close and personal to the nf-104. While I was walking to my shop one morning, it was just sitting there between the hangers and I had to walk right past it. Of course I had to stop and look at it, and do a walk-around. I always thought that the f-104 was one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built, but this thing was so impressive with its reaction nozzles on the wings and in the nose, and the rocket installed above the exhaust pipe was just incredible. Your video was one of the best recreations of how the nf-104 operated. Thank you very much, for bringing back that memory.

This, this is how you make a film. It captures everything: the speed, the anxiety, the adrenaline, the thrill. Incredible.

Спасибо за фильм.❤❤❤ Чак легенда.

Rode dirt bikes out to where chuck had crashed the 104 trainer. Father in law lived at Landers Ca, outside of Yukka Valley. Simple gps and map fix, and we were there. Dad was a private pilot for 48 years. Went to every airshow imaginable, including Paris. Met Chuck on several occasions. Ironically, he passed away on Dec 7, Pearl Harbor Day. My birthday. I have a hand carved high detail Normandy Invasion P-51 with all the stores on the wings, signed by Chuck. letter from him, in his handwriting, for authenticity. He had signed the wing of the P-51. It was his second flight that day with the trainer. The first one before breakfast went great. Bad probs on the second of the day. RIP Chuck.

What an amazing film. This needs an award. Still can't get enough of the scene with the sonic boom 😍

@Viper-ih3yt

Жыл бұрын

If I got a nickel for everything a film with the name “the right stuff” got an award I’ve had 2 nickels. Which isn’t weird, it’s just weird that it Happened twice.

@richardsmyth305

Жыл бұрын

Certainly spooked those cattle.

The F-104 is one of the prettiest jets. Especially when flying without the payload.

The cows hearing the sonic boom makes this stand out and kudos for the accuracy. I totally enjoyed this and in fact I'm going to watch it again. Right now.

My favorite line from the whole movie... "Look! Is that a man?" ... "Yeah, you damn right it is!"

Thank you J.P. For creating this beautiful tribute to Chuck Yeager and all the test pilots who flew in those early days of space flight. You've given us both the look and feel of a small piece of not only American History but global history, without those amazingly skilled pilots back then space flight we know today would not be possible. Thank you also for showing us not only with this but all your DCS Movies what truly can be done in DCS World if we give it our passion and support. I can't wait to see your next video production you are an amazing independent producer/director who makes content that inspires and fulfils the dreams of virtual pilots everywhere.

@JPFerre

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very very much :)

This was and is utterly brilliant - real life is infinitely more thrilling than any movie. I was delighted to hear the opening bars of Debussy's 'Claire de Lune' at 6:29 when the moon comes into view - a very stylish touch indeed ! This short film is a masterpiece, and JP is to be congratulated on such stunningly fine work.

@JPFerre

Жыл бұрын

Hi and thank YOU! I'm so happy you spotted these first notes, that was the intention!!! Cheers +++

@mikedineen7857

Жыл бұрын

You need to watch the RIGHT STUFF.

@martinlagrange8821

Жыл бұрын

@@mikedineen7857 Oh but I have, when age 8 ! Clair De Lune is forever wedded to the image of an NF-104 streaking spacewards to this very day for me...

So cool. “N” in NF-104 is post-1955 code for “permanent special test”. In the movie “The Right Stuff” they used a regular F-104 with no attempt to modify - and made it worse by having the tower crew saying “what kind of plane is that!?” - even worse then have Yeager fire his rocket with no explanation of why there isn’t one.

Both my Uncles were F-104 Instructors. Brave Pilots indeed.

I just read Yeager's autobiography, in which he wrote about this incident. I very much recommend reading the book, as it goes through Yeager's entire life as a West Virginian, fighter pilot, test pilot, and general. Yeager was truly an American Hero!

@Marine450x

4 ай бұрын

Agree. Amazing book and even more amazing man.

I got to meet Chuck Yeager when he was at the Mojave Airport for the Voyager and Edwards Air Force Base airshows. I grew up around Edwards Air Force Base because my biological father worked at Edwards and Groom Lake. I couldn't have asked for a better life. I would love to go back in time and just relive it all over again. I don't want to change it. I just want to relive it. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's.

There was a flight program in the 90's if I remember correctly. It was for disadvantaged youth. They took young adult on flights to introduce them to aviation. There was this kid that I read about that I envied. His first flight ever was in a WWII aircraft. His pilot was Gen. Chuck Yeager. I really hoped that someone expressed the significance to him. I was a helicopter crew chief in the Air/Cav and I was in awe.

This was a true "Starfighter"! never knew it was equipped with manoeuvring nozzles in the wings and the nose!

I did not realise that the NF-104 had Reaction Control Systems installed like that! Thank you for a gripping short story. I remember watching the scene in "The Right Stuff", and you could have easily inserted this sequence in there to markedly improve the original movie. Well done. Well done indeed.

@SloaneLasers

Жыл бұрын

I never knew it had the 6,000 lb/st rocket motor for upper stratosphere assist. Definitely didn't know about the forward RCS. Was it the same system used on Gemini capsules?

@j.griffin

Жыл бұрын

@@SloaneLasers Similar but not the same. To my knowledge, The NF-104 had 13 rockets- 1 for thrust, the rest for RCS. The Gemini? “Two separate systems were required: the orbit attitude and maneuvering system (OAMS) and the reaction or reentry control system (RCS). The OAMS, located in the adapter section, had four functions: (1) providing the thrust required to enable the spacecraft to rendezvous with the target vehicle; (2) controlling the attitude of the spacecraft in orbit; (3) separating the spacecraft from the second stage of the launch vehicle and inserting it in orbit; and (4) providing abort capability at altitudes between 300,000 feet and orbital insertion. The OAMS initially comprised 16 ablative thrust chambers; eight 25-pound thrusters to control the spacecraft attitude in pitch, yaw, and roll axes; and eight 100-pound thrusters to maneuvre the spacecraft axially, vertically, and laterally. Rather than providing a redundant system, only critical components were to be duplicated. The RCS was located forward of the crew compartment in an independent RCS module. It consisted of two completely independent systems, each containing eight 25-pound thrusters very similar to those used in the OAMS. The purpose of the RCS was to maintain the attitude of the spacecraft during the reentry phase of the mission.” -the astronautix website AKA Encyclopedia Astronautica

@SloaneLasers

Жыл бұрын

@@j.griffin Thank you! Holy crap, 12 separate thrusters. I could really only see a couple in the video near the cockpit. That's amazing.

@karlbark

Жыл бұрын

@@SloaneLasers You really need to (!) see the film "The Right Stuff". This sequence is right out of that (fantastic) film.

@mmille10

Жыл бұрын

The way this scene was portrayed in the movie was that Yeager was taking an unplanned flight, but the controllers just "let him do it, because he's Yeager." I like this version better.

Chuck, you blue suit badass, you, rest in peace. You make me proud to have worn that blue suit.

I was at Edwards for 2 years. Great Video! Pity Edwards is not modeled in the NTTR Map. The location is within the confines of the map, but nothing is there other than a 2d image.

Kudos for making a scenic factual piece by J.P.Ferre Salam and Respect to Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager from Pakistan. Rest in Peace Sir Yeager.

2- words,"OUTSTANDING"... "Thanks" for sharing this with us, makes me want to build a model of an F-104 now.

warthunder fan here , I see our brother at dcs know how to make a great movie . Congratulation this is awesome .

Very good recreation. Much more accurate than most I have seen. Yeager's autobiography indicates that the rocket was not ignited until after the 70 degree pitch up maneuver, and his initial zoom run to Mach 2 was run on jet power at 37,000 feet. But everything else looks right on. FYI, Chuck's chase pilot that day was Bud Anderson in a T-33, but Bud was already in the air on another assignment when the planned chase plane had to abort for mechanical problems, so Bud volunteered and took over.

I loved the movie "The Right Stuff" and to me is still one of the best movies about the early space program and those crazy mad men who dared.

Well done. I thought that sounded like Vincent doing the narration. I had no idea about this. The F104 will always be a beautiful plane. Thanks!

I meet Gen. Yeager just before they completed filming The Right Stuff. Wow. We were doing some telephone cable installation work installing a new cable into the officers club .

me at the beginning: "ok let's try this funny amateur thing" me at the end: sweating grabbing my armchair: "Eject chuck EJECT!!!"

That's an absolute masterpiece of a short film and one hell of a story. Incredible work, you should be proud of this!

I loved the movie since childhood - love this movie! Great work!

Thanks for the content. Ironically the F-104 was called the "widow maker". There was a joke in Germany that if you wanted an F-104, you could by land by a military airport. They used to have one outside my barracks at the 1st Luftwaffee Division in Messstetten

Chuck Yeager. The Man with Steel balls...and lungs, and heart, and brains, and ALL the rest.

This is the first time I ever felt emotional while watching a DCS cinematic. Thanks for creating this master piece!

This is beautiful - beauty in complexity and detail. It’s what makes pushing the limits so incredible.

Nice. This is how I felt when I made my first solo in a Cessna 152. Without the sonic boom. Or the rocket. Or the afterburner, or...

This scene in the movie was so dramatic......it depicted flight in all its majesty...

DCS has really attracted the finest and most talented videographers! What a stunning work, JP!

This film, although short, deserves all the respect it gets

A common occurrence during my childhood in the late 1960s riding horseback somewhere between the San Joaquin River and the Diablo Range was the almost daily occurrence of sonic booms and contrails in the daytime sky.

Amazingly done! Such commitment to a project for so long, is rarely seen. I do not think the vast majority of people, can fathom putting in a couple weeks worth of work on a project, let alone 2+ years. I know, I spent 5+ years on a Land Art Project. You should have way more followers, however, it is no surprise that you do not. KZread favors the mindless content from it's WT Silver Play Button Content Creators, who worry only about quantity, rather than quality. They will NEVER reach your level of talent. They do NOT have the patience for it. I salute your patience, dedication and gifted talent. It is refreshing to see someone else that has the level of perseverance, will power and motivation to create a project this extremely well-made. Great job.💯 I cannot stress that enough! 💯

You truly captured the legacy of the movie and honoured Philip Kaufman with this amazing work! I was just a little kid when I went with my father to watch “The right stuff” at the theatre. I remained thrilled by the movie and then I decided to become an aerospace engineer due to that movie. All my life has been influenced by that experience. Actually watching this movie again and again reconnects me now with the loving memory of my father and the man I am now. When the first notes of the Yaeger theme started I had chills. Thank you for this superb work.

Thanks for putting this together. I still get chills and adrenaline shots watching and listening to the music. They played that soundtrack at my son's Eagle Scout Ceremony in '85. I was at USCG AIR DETACHMENT KODIAK when that still SECRET mission was flown . Some days later, we hosted a USAF pilot with his F-104 out of Elmendorf AFB at the NAS. We had never seen anything like it; razor thin wings, all engine. Just after he took off, he swung around, came in low overhead, hit the AFTERBURNER and climbed almost straight up and out of sight !

There should be a DCS movie festival for these nice creations.

Amazing movie!! What a gripping edge-of-the-seat story. I'm not aware that the NF104A is fitted with RCS. Chuck Yeager and the rest of the test pilots and astronauts were certainly made of The Right Stuff!!

A wonderful tribute to an amazing pilot, fantastic work. Anyone who loves the history of flight should read his autobiography, just a very down to earth plain speaking guy with an unbelievable natural talent for flying anything and everything. He was truly made of the Right Stuff.

We need more short film like that ! Great work to everyone involved!

Aerial cinematography at its best 💪😁😎

wow, just wow... magnificent. you did a excellent job man. congrats. 👌😎🙏

Fantastic stuff 🙏🏻thank you for this outstanding production. Superb. Thank you for all your passion, support and commitment to DCS. Kind regards Nick

@JPFerre

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU very much Nick and everyone at Eagle Dynamics!!!

Wow...a worthy homage to Chuck Yeager. Very well done.

I owned the 2 part VHS as a kid, and I probably watched it with my dad at least 5 times. Great movie, and great job with your DCS short film!

👏👏Superbe !🤯December 6, 1963 : NF-104A 56756 reached a peak altitude of 120,800 feet (36,820 meters), before reentering the atmosphere in a 70° dive. Major Robert Smith used the windmill effect of air rushing into the intakes to restart the jet engine. (thisdayinaviation)

Gets my vote for DCS movie of the year! 👍

This is hands down the best short film created in DCS. Wow! Congratulations man! Very very well done!

Masterwork. Thank you J.P.

Nice work! Fitting tribute to the General and the 104. The cows in the field were a nice touch...

Awesome flim as always, great job mate))

My grandpa was the man who fitted Chuck in the pressure suit and hooked him up to his life support in the aircraft. He was the last person to touch him before the flight. He is in the historical pic in the link below checking his watch. Grandpa said Chuck was the cockest SOB in the Air Force, well he would have to be to try this... You can see the X-15 patch on his right arm which is the only surviving known x-15 patch as most of those pilots went on to the apollo program and got way cooler patches, on his left arm which you can not see is a YF12/SR-71 test force patch and checked out in the blackbirds on may 26, 1966 as the 125 to fly. In the movie, yeager (sheppard) is asking ricky or ridley? for some Beemens and then they "steal" the airplane. My speculation is that the scene was inspired by the image and they changed the name a little with a lot of hollywood injection as test flights are carefully planned and executed with redundant safety personnel. The director wanted to capture Yeager as a wild man. They salvaged 2 f-104 out of the Bone Yard for the movie and its obvious as the move planes don't have the rocket motor at the base of the tail. These guys are the GRIT....(I did not inherit any of their swag...) www.thisdayinaviation.com/10-december-1963/yeager-charles-e-chuck-colonel-usaf-wearing-full-pressure-suit/

@timdskibum

6 ай бұрын

Another fun video to watch published on Edwards AFB channel. BTW, thanks JP for making this short film. It was fun to watch in HD compared to the original footage below. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2dmpbKLiKjAZ9Y.html&lc=Ugy3Bn7S1jB340OBZtF4AaABAg.92SBjsfxeeu9wn_RmUOTZ0

As a young boy, I first flew as a passenger in the late 1960s. I was always corralled to the cockpit during flights to see the sights. The dials, the yokes, the quadrants, all fascinating. All the pilots had a southern drawl, and thought to myself “I’m going to be the first Yankee pilot… God bless.

Very well done. Chuck Yeager was the most famous test pilot from the United States. I remember this scene from the movie. Somehow, I think this is a more realistic dipiction of that event. They didn't use an NF-104 in the movie. Really good stuff! 👍

The attention to detail you've put into this movie is beyond what anyone would ever expect, outstanding work!

Crazy wild! God bless Chuck.

What a remaquable work, a realization worthy of this great film "the right stuff" Bravo and bravo again ... 👋👋👋👋

I absolutely love the cinematography and how you mixed the original sounds from the movie with yours. Perfect, 10/10.

I love the First Man inspirations in shots and dialogue. Truly puts gravity to the event and the scenes with the thrusters are heavenly! Amazing work!

@mattgallegos4838

Жыл бұрын

Ever seen the movie The Right Stuff? The Right Stuff preceded First Man by 35 years. This video is a remake of the final scene in The Right Stuff.

Yes, the starfighter or "Witwenmacher" as we called it. Was more of a device for researching the earth's gravity. After our air force bought some, every major beet farmer had one of these in his field.

Impossible not to watch the film (not a video but a film) until the end! Fantastic. And instructive which is rare!

Pour une raison obscure, je ne découvre ta chaîne que maintenant, avec ce film qui sort des sentiers battus en prenant un angle historique (ce qui est déjà une très belle surprise). Comment appeler ça ? Une claque ? Un uppercut ? Qu'il s'agisse de la direction artistique qui est soignée, des plans de caméra sublimes ou du son (purée t'as dû y passer des semaines rien que pour ça), le résultat est immersif à souhait ! Une performance proprement splendide de ta part car DCS a beau être permissif, chaque détail parsemé durant ton film prouve que tu n'as pas choisi la facilité. Bravo et surtout merci pour cet hommage à une facette de l'Aéronautique trop peu mise en avant. Fly safe !

Col. Yeager he defiantly had the right stuff. A rare breed, I think he would have proud if he saw this. Great job and the event timings, in the move it made him look like a cowboy out for a joy ride, because he was Chuck, but I see now it was a official test flight. I know this took you sometime to put this together, and sir it was worth the wait. Love it. I salute you.

The cows were a great touch!

One of your best videos yet absolutely incredible

You Sir deserve an Oscar for this as you have managed to cram more excitement into a short twelve minute video than Hollywood has managed to put into any full lengh movie of the last decade !👍👍👍👍👍👍

Fantastic work! You and your team captured a level of suspense and awe that I certainly wasn't expecting. Kudos, and thank you for all of the effort, hours, and coordination this must have taken to accomplish.

You are the first DCS filmmaker I've seen fully utilize the great and groundbreaking cow model. Bravo.

Omg I live you movies and you make me wanna make my own movies

Wow!! I didn't know how this story ended, so you had me on the edge of my seat nearly yelling at the screen! I was like "get out of there, you're so much more important than the plane, noOOO!!!" 😆

I don´t even want to imagine how much time was spent making this masterpiece. That´s crazy. Well done!

Back when I was around 12 or so, I was playing an air combat sim on my PC. Back then, I was getting into such games, but I was pretty bad at them. Before then, I was more into space combat games like X-wing vs TIE Fighter (and I still largely am), so I was more attuned to those kinds of controls and had a lot to unlearn and learn for air combat. At the time of this minor story, I was finally getting the hang of air combat, finally growing familiar with all of the controls - or at least those of this particular game - and finally starting to get the methods and tactics down. At this point, I started raising the difficulty of the game, which mainly consisted of "easier flying/targeting/etc.," unlimited ammo and fuel, invincibility, and the like. I had shed the invincibility, ammo, and fuel, so it was a matter of bringing it into more of the realm of realism (or what could be considered realistic for a game first released in 1999). I was playing one of the game's Vietnam War missions, and I was flying an F-4E. Don't ask me how this happened, but I ended up chasing a MiG-21 up to an altitude around 40,000 feet (again, don't ask). I managed to shoot the MiG down with my last Sparrow missile, but the instant the missile struck, I entered a stall and fell away. Unfortunately for me, I did not have getting out of a stall down yet, and after a series of mistakes, I ended up putting the Phantom into a flat spin. It was quite the terrifying experience for me (to reiterate, I was around 12, and I was a bit on the dumb side at that age), and nothing I could think of was getting me out of it (again, I was a dumb 12-year-old). As I fell below 10,000 feet, I heard the in-game incoming missile warning. I barely noticed the RWR, and it showed an incoming SAM. As it was still a game, I launched countermeasures, but my stall meant that I did not break the lock. I punched out of the Phantom at around 6,000 feet, and just before the Phantom would have hit the ground, the SAM struck and destroyed it. It may have been a computer game that made up all of my experience, up to and including the flat spin, but it made it pretty clear to me then that flying any plane but especially a high-speed fighter was no joke. It was quite the sobering experience, even if it was ultimately just a game. From that, I can only imagine what Chuck Yeager went through and what was going through his mind in the middle of it all. Mission reports, interviews, and re-creations can only impart so much, so there will always be some aspect(s) that very few others beyond Yeager and the rest of his kind could ever truly know, understand, or even imagine - and my little story could, at most, be described as a drop in the bucket when compared to the experiences of those like Yeager, and that is undoubtedly being grossly generous to my story. Still, this little film did a pretty damn good job of conveying a sense of thrill, excitement, and perhaps most importantly, the real clear and present dangers of high-speed flying, especially in experimental/training aircraft like the NF-104A. Kudos to all of the efforts that were put into this. Sure, there may have been a full movie of the same name, and it is a must-see for any aviation enthusiast, but there are production limits, particularly physical ones, to what can be captured on film. For this portrayal of this fateful mission of Yeager's, I would like to think that this little film brought even more pride to his legacy.

Nice work. Yeager reached 109,000ft in the F104. He believed if there was ONE plane that could go to "space" it was this plane. The real reason NO ONE gets out of our atmosphere is the air gets mighty thin up there and you need LIFT & THRUST to PUSH off the the earth and you need atmosphere to push against.

Truely astonishing!! You have my biggest respect for the amount of work that has been put in this masterpiece! This is some high class movie scripting

Ok now that’s how a film has to be made and of course only you, JP can make such a great film. Rest in peace Colonel Yeager. Hey JP and I also wanted ask how do you make the sound design like the RCS and the engine and like the aircraft being stressed, the flat spin etc. I just love it. Keep making these. You’ve raised the bar for DCS cinematic!

NF-104A Is One Of My Favourite Planes. It Was One Of The Planes Which Helped Humans To Study The Transonic Regime And Led Way To The Supersonic Era.

Makes me want to see a digitally re mastered version of the 1982 movie “The Right Stuff”

This gave me chills, so realistic!!! Incredible. Thank you so much for all the great work!!!

Thanks a lot for this tribute to this legendary flight, this incredible plane, to DCS and of course to Chuck ! Merci pour ton partage de ce chef d œuvre ! 🇫🇷 🤙

9:32 uses the glider deploy sound from fortnite, absolute W

Great voiceover by Vincent “Jell-O” Aiello of the Fighter Pilot Podcast!

Really great production, using DCS. Good job you guys!

Amazing work! well done, the part where he couldn't get the nose down and someone said deploy the chute was pure gold, those guys really did have the right stuff

Absolutely gorgeous and stunning film!!!!

At 6:30 love the little nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey 😁

Your work is a huge inspiration to me, and I'm sure many others. Thank you for sharing. Excellent as ever! o7

What an amazing Job, historically accurate, good communications, nice songs and well explained. You make us feel the pressure and the stress induced by this kind of intense test flight, that's a 5 out of 5 Perfect ! A big thanks to VSN team for aircraft models hard work, JP what you have done with your short film is The Right Stuff, well done ! 💪😉

Great job commemorating a great man. I can see Chuck asking you, "got any Beeman's?"

AMAZING....best 'classical' historical sort movie ever. I am waiting for other short movie.

This was an absolutely beautiful tribute to Col. Yeager and the people involved in this project. Thank you SO much for bringing us this magnum opus. I'm surprised Col. Yeager made it safely to the ground - especially when considering the strain put on that parachute by his huge brass balls!!😂Seriously though, my sincere gratitude to you - this made my already good day even better! Thanks!

@JPFerre

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much :)