As a dramatic docu-drama designed to capture public attention (pre-Top Gun), it was a great success. Knowing the reality versus the movie made it even more entertaining to aviation geeks at the time! Memorizing the dialogue was a rite of passage for flight-minded youth of the day.

While I was happy to see a feature film covering the early space program (and X-1), I remember being really pissed off in the theater when I saw how they portrayed both the German scientists and Gus Grissom. A few years later when I read more on the X-1 program, I realized how much the maligned Slick Goodwin as well. Then I read the book and boy, what a difference. Much better! Great stuff you have here!

@rudolphguarnacci197

8 ай бұрын

Grissom was one of the brightest men in history. He stuck a lemon on the antenna of a mock LEM. A few months later he was dead.

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

@@rudolphguarnacci197no, he didn’t. It was a lemon on the CM simulator, because the software wasn’t keeping up with the actual spacecraft. But, hey, let’s not get in the way of a good story.

Thanks again for another great video on technology. In watching I noticed what I believe to be another incorrect depiction in The Right Stuff. When the test plane is dropped from the B-29 you see the B-29 pilot pull back a large red handle on the control stand. I believe this handle is the parking brake handle for the B-29. I flew up front in one of the two remaining B-29s that fly and noticed this was the parking brake. I guess It's possible this handle was modified to release the test plane, but if not, is a good visual for release of the test plane.

I saw the film when it was released in 70MM Dolby in an empty matinee theater at the Houston Galleria. The media considered it a campaign tool for John Glenn. It thought it was amazing. Later, I would learn of how Sam Shepard's family and mine were tightly intertwined. And later, I would have clodr encounters with Film Commission head Jeanette Etheridge in San Francisco. She is included talking with Phillip Kauffman on the DVD as a bonus. You made a good film. Movies tend to lean towards good storyline than precise accuracy.

Great video! One interesting fact you may or may not know. In one of the scenes taking place in Poncho Barnes' watering hole. You'll see an older gentleman offering a drink to one of the bar patrons. That older gentleman was played by the real Chuck Yeager.

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

Not many people know that, apparently.

I watched a doco recently, (not a pound for air to ground, KZread channel) that stated the sound barrier was broken (unofficially ) 2 weeks prior to Yeager by an F-86.

Really good Tube I regret I watched it late at night. I will view it after my morning coffee.

Also one of my favorite movies. An amazing soundtrack by Bill Conti.

.. I believe Bob Hoover was also the back-up pilot for Yeager on the X-1 program..... Colonel Boyd was their CO..... Also in that picture of Yeager and other pilots at the piano, the gentleman to his right was Clarence "Bud" Anderson. He was in the same P51 squadron with Chuck who wrote a good book "To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace".....

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

Saw Bob fly those loops and rolls with the turbo-prop a/c with the power off in Australia years ago. Amazing.

Can't believe i saw this FORTY years ago.

Great video about one of the great movies… movies.

Congratulations on 1K subscribers!

Love it!

One of my all time favorite movies and that was a beast of a VHS collection!! I just recently joined the channel and was pleasantly surprised to find this!

@rudolphguarnacci197

8 ай бұрын

Me too!

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

Mine had the ad for The Shining at the beginning.

Whoo! The internet money train! Choo choo! Congrats on 1k. You definitely put in the work to earn it.

Great Stuff! Thanks.

Terrific recap of one of my favorite movies! One very minor correction: NACA is/was pronounced as its initials (“en ay see ay”), not as an acronym (“nack-uh”).

@Onizukachan915

7 ай бұрын

Both are actually acceptable since the 60s, as in the NACA duct. Pronounced NahKah. At the time however you are correct that it was common to read letter by letter the NACA acronym.

good channel

how do you say subsequent?

Filmmakers seem oddly averse to depicting people as behaving mostly professionally when on the job, even when that's how they really were. It's not like people turn into robots just because they think their actual job is important! You can have compelling characters that act more like real people.

Disappointing u/s propaganda. Captain Eric Brown RN, nicknamed "Winkle", was the only allied pilot to fly the Me 163 as far as I recall. He was also involved in the development of the Miles supersonic aircraft project, the cancellation of which he considered catastrophic to the British aircraft industry. In later years, he regretted the "anxiety" his vocation caused to his family, on a service salary. A great admirer of your presentations. Slante! ☘👿 Tasmaniac.

The one thing that got me angry about this movie is that Chuck Yeager had permission to fly each of the flights he did!!!

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

What got me was Chuck actually screwing the pooch in that NF104 flight, but the movie doesn’t make that clear.

I cant watch movies that, for one reason or another, falsify the story of what truly happened. Two major cases in time are "For All Mankind" and "First Man". The latter is practically unwatchable...

@rudolphguarnacci197

8 ай бұрын

Propaganda tools.

@petermcgill1315

Ай бұрын

Well, For All Mankind is alternate fiction. Not for everyone. You didn’t like First Man? That’s a shame. I’ve read from family members it’s pretty close to home.