Hard to believe he was shot down in World War II became great friends with the man that shot him down and then did all that wow

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Man is one of the reasons for my love of all things aviation. What a true loss. ☹️ Hope you can still fly aircraft in heaven because heaven would be boring without it.

I know this will sound eerie but I was watching this movie the day he died or the day before and I was asking myself how much time does Chuck Yeager have left. He's old. And by a freakish coincidence he died that same day or the day after

@@joeybomba1712 Ridley is the guy who shot at him? 😳🤔

President Truman gave permission for Orville Wright to be told the news of this success before he died.

And just 20 years after Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic.

Wow! That's like Gutenburg seeing laser printers.

The first flight of the B-52 was five years after this event in 1952. The B-52 is still flying in the USAF and will be for another 30+ years. WWII was a war for knowledge and information at a time when humanity was just learning how to interperate said information... look at all the technological advances in the years immediately following WWII...

12 years from the B-52 to the SR-71. Less than five years from Francis Gary Powers's U-2 being shot down to the Blackbird.

Oh he shot down 12 German planes, evaded capture when shot down, then came back and shot down a jet to add to his score.

@@maxfrankow1238 Mr Yeager's book corrects some things that are portrayed incorrectly in this film. And his own account of shooting down an ME-262 is different than how many people would like to believe it happened.

@@lagersparadice8739 I know. I have read Mr Yeager's account of what happened

Exactly and it's really painful.

@Franklin Vaugn ribs if I remember correctly, and trust me if you add the pressure in the cockpit it's far more painful, because one can't stop breathing. 👍

Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower and crushed by tanks "Hungry March" in 1932 injured 2,000 veterans, women, old people and children, seized 40,000 people

Тимо - не знаешь о Голодном Марше 1932 года ?

А ты знаешь о Великой Депрессии - тот же голод,только в США (и это при наличии продуктов),в котором ПРОПАЛО!!!! 12 млн. американцев?,и тогда же появилось множество трудовых концлагерей,которые КАК РАЗ в года Великой Депрессии и понастроили множество дорог,городов,фабрик,заводов. построили Великую Стену у Миссисипи,что бы она не разливалась так широко,различные плотины и множество гидроэлектростанций

Tимо - знаешь, какая рифма к твоему имени? И что самое интересное(только ты не обижайся) - ОЧЕНЬ верная - МИМО !!! Потому что ты истории не знаешь абсолютно !!!! А уж тем более истории экономики. Я дам тебе миллион , если ты назовёшь,ГДЕ был КОММУНИЗМ !!! Ну и немного экономической истории - ну вот с хренов ли в США ВООБЩЕ мог быть кризис , если по производству продуктов питания она выступала на первом месте в мире , НО вот почему-то то,что не продавалось - раздавливалось тракторами , сгнаивалось , выбрасывалось в море и на мусорки , и просто сжигалось,если горело - как растительные масла.Вот ты представляешь,народ голодает из-за того , что капиталист решил поддержать текущие цены .и ПОЭТОМУ часть продуктов отправил под тракторы на мусорках. Нет что бы СНИЗИТЬ цены и раздать беднякам - да наклали они на народ , да и не их это народ ,пусть подыхает,лишь бы прибыль не снизилась!!! И как ты думаешь,ПОЧЕМУ Германия.которая репарацией расплачивалась (а это значит 95% всей прибыли шло на выплаты) ВДРУГ стала ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИ ПОДНИМАТЬСЯ? Как ты думаешь,КТО стал ВДРУГ инвестировать в беднейшую Германию? ОЙ - а это ВДРУГ компании : - SIEMENS , COCA-COLA , BOSS , FORD , General Motors , Standart Oil , Maggi , Kodak , Allians , Krupp & Thyssen , Bayer ,Renault , Ikea и множество ещё более мелких компаний и по сей день существующих

И опять - МИМО...Логически можешь объяснить? (миллион ты уже не хочешь получить?)

Seriously. Such a great line.

Brilliant response...

@@Shutterbun4 Right? I use it myself any time I describe needing to "go fast" Flooring my WRX? I put the spurs to er' Leading a sprint on my road bike? Putting the spurs to 'er Every once and a while I say it... and someone gives me the "look" Yeah... they know where it came from. Kindred spirit.

WARNING....WARNING...CLICHE' DETECTED.

General Yeager has stated him and Lt Hoover could fly but it was Col Ridley who had the brains. Hoover being from Tennessee Yeager from West Virginia and Ridley from Oklahoma he said Col Ridley spoke their language and both trusted their lives with him. He also stated that if Ridley had at any given time told him it was unsafe to fly you would’ve never heard from “yours truly”.

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~ The twin sonic booms you heard were the General entering Heaven @ Mach 2

Indeed.

me too

But you wouldn't know it hardly after scoping the news media just now. Only CBS News and NBC News gave us any kind of information about his passing, and even at that, the story was buried. Shame on the media, especially after giving Ginsburg the royal treatment for weeks. Complete shame.

Got paid better, too, with a spoken line.

I was floored when I saw Chuck appear in an episode of I Dream of Jeanie! I was like, "WTF! Is that Yeager?!?"

I stopped watching it after episode 5. Mediocre acting, most of the astronauts look almost nothing like the real characters, dreadful CGI, cheap production (hate to say it but it shows), no Chuck Yeager,/X plane program/Edwards AFB era, no rocket development process and the whole show/story focuses on all the wrong things. I don’t care or want to know how many girls Shepard and Cooper screwed or see a complete run down of all the pool parties, LIFE magazine interviews and social gatherings they attended. I want to mostly know about the technical difficulties they faced, the scientific challenges, the space race with the Russians, the training they went through , the proper selection process and obviously the fears, concerns and doubts they had in every step and how they managed to push through. Nothing of that was shown, WTF!

@@gpapa31 That's exactly what I expected from The Mouse. What a waste of potential.

@MacBookemDanno I might be wrong with this but I’ll say it anyway. My gut feeling is that the production simply does not have enough money to deal with this project properly. Showing X planes program and Edwards AFB record breaking attempts, missile tests, astronaut training facilities, labs, launching sites etc and do them properly, translates into immaculate and detailed -Nolan level CGI, blended with proper practical effects with real planes and good mock ups. All of the above translates into a huge budget for a TV show, which evidently do not have. If you notice 95% of the scenes are either indoors or small outdoor areas (swimming pool, parking lot) and involve people and dialogue whether that has to do with office stuff, interviews, flirting with girls, Family affairs issues etc. The budget you need to shoot all that is negligible: the only proper scenes I’ve seen thus far (watched up to episode 5) that warren some aerospace interest was the F-104 flight and the failed Redstone rocket launch, all done with CGI so bad that looks like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 graphics.

@MacBookemDanno I would summarize the era thusly, borrowing from both Tom Wolfe and my own USAF uncle: 1.) Flying. 2.) Drinking. 3.) Driving. 4.) Screwing. That said, when the balloon went up and the chips were down: a.) You went where you were needed, and b.) You would sooner crash and burn than let your buddies down.

It doesn't have Barbara Hershey and Pamela Reed.

I believe the x-15 was much faster than the sr71. Your point still stands though, the x15 was also flown in the 60s and it's record has yet to be broken.

@@marchicago x-15 used rocket engine and rocket fuel .. sr -71 not

@@marchicagoThe X-15 is definitely the fastest of all time. It reached a speed of Mach 6.7 (4,534 mph) and also broke the altitude record by flying an incredible 354,000 feet. The pilots flew so high that they were actually given astronaut wings for officially being in space. But because it had to be dropped from a bomber and had rockets, it’s not considered a true jet. And that’s why the SR-71 is considered the fastest airplane.

Everything I've ever read and heard about him says he would agree with your comment as do I. Team effort!

@@jeffsanders663 Yup! But somebody has to step up & be quarterback!

Chuck Yeager said this project would not have succeeded without Jack Ridley. You have to read Yeager’s biography to know what I’m talking about. Ridley saved the project.

Absolutely, people like that are amazing.... and i would Add .... world-wide.

yep it was released in 1984' during Prez Ronnie Reagans adminstration.

Speak for yourself.

@@josephastier7421 On 4 Mar 1987, Reagan made a further nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for the ' Iran Contra affair ' stating "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages".

@ 95 General Yeager is a living legend. With two broken ribs he broke the sound barrier. May he live to see man break the speed of light next.

And the crudeness of the cockpit! It looks like it was put together in a backyard sheet metal shop.

A tru Rocketeer

And being at one with the machine he was flying.

@@glennellis1584 Dude... you don't know the half of it... hell yeah he had two big brass ones alright. Fun fact: at the time - hardshell flight helmets weren't a thing yet - so he modded a football helmet of the period to fit over his leather flight helmet and radio ear cups. You see him in the bar carving it up with a buck knife to suit his needs - that's why the line "gonna look like the galloping ghost (a famous football player) in this" when Ridley tosses him. the helmet. He did indeed use a modified football helmet for his flight. Also - he did fly with broken ribs, from a horseback riding incident and DID use a sawed off broomstick to latch the door on the X1 on his Mach 1 flight. His wife drove him 50 miles into town to see an off base doctor, so he wouldn't get grounded. So, That's true. Another interesting thing was, the door for the X1 was just in front of the wings and had no ejection seat - wings which were so thin there were guards placed on them when the plane was parked lest ground crew injure themselves on them... which means had Yeager attempted to bail out of the plane - he'd have certainly been killed. So while yes, he had a parachute, in his autobiography - he mentioned he only wore it so he had a comfortable pad to sit on - he had no illusions of actually being able to use it in an emergency to egress the plane. In the X1A (the plane he loses control of and busts the canopy with his helmet in) - he didn't even have a chute - the canopy was bolted into place and there was no escape system. So yeah - he almost died there. That scene actually happened more or less as depicted, he lost control at mach 2.3 and fell out of the sky and lost 10 miles of altitude before getting control back. He said in his autobiography, had the plane had an escape system or ejection seat - he'd have bailed out of it. Instead the guy did what he had to do and wrestled the beast back under control. there was a fair amount of Hollywood in the F104 scene in the movie - but he did nearly die in an NF104 doing re entry research workups for the (later cancelled) x20 dynasoar program.

Flying around in heaven in his P-51.

And still chasing demons.

rofl when you break the sound barrier for the very first time you can talk how ever you want to.

And the triumphant Conti score?!

Virgil "Gus' Grissom was the first of the Mercury Astronauts to die. He was killed along with Ed White and Roger Chaffee while inside an Apollo test module that caught fire on January 27, 1967. John Glenn was the oldest of the Mercury Astronauts and the last to die at age 95 on December 8, 2016.

He was the dramatic version of the "straight man".

Levon was even better in Coal Miners Daughter. I always love just before this scene when he improvised that stick by cutting down a portion of a broomstick and then twirls it like a drummer would. I like to think that was his little nod to his years with The Band

Fair enough.

Wish I had a teacher like you :)

The problem is that his life was so amazing, many wouldn't believe it.

He's a white straight male. They'd never do it.

@@alanrogs3990 oh puh-leeze, they do movies about straight white males all the time

@@JugSouthgate not anymore

@@alanrogs3990 The First Man....

The story of Yeager meeting Hoover is legendary, they Tangled in a mock dogfight above Wright field Yeager in an Xp-80 and Hoover in a P-38 and neither one could outfly the other.

@@kdrapertrucker Yeah I read both biographies and both had a funny tale about that day. They near killed each other unintentionally trying to out do each other!

If I hadn't come across this comment I was going to say it myself. Thanks. Damn right.

It's a great line but it never happened.Jack Ridley had been dead for 6 years when this happened.

This line is from a time when masculinity was hallowed and revered, I feel in some ways today it's being questioned, marginalized and ridiculed. Until that quality is needed again, perhaps even by the those who undervalued and derided it.

He also had a great small role in the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg

All this talk about the movie about a legend and not about the legend in the movie. One of the greatest drummers of all time.

I'm actually surprised that he never went into space. Not that the other people weren't good but it seemed like he could've became a great astronaut.

Damn! He really does have the right stuff...

What's crazier is he actually outlived Sam Shephard, the actor portraying him here.

@DaB1GNaSTY 99 In slight fairness, he had previously worked with some of those who were chosen, and didn't have a very high opinion of them as pilots.

Was... what a man RIP

John Prudent I agree, one of the best scenes I've ever enjoyed.

You hit the nail on the head, intense w/o being over the top. That's excellent editing!

That's pretty cool.

No broken arm. But he did have two broken ribs.

Also some in flight scenes with Fifi, the Confederate Air Force's B-29.

@@WiseguyThreeOne At least some of the scenes were shot with a former Navy B-29, no longer flying, now owned by the Weeks Air Museum in Florida.

@@MA-wq2ih Yeah, "Fertile Myrtle", who also flew in "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark". Grounded for wing spar corrosion by the FAA and Kermit never had the time or money to pull her apart for a rebuild. CAF did Fifi, and now Doc is flying, so maybe Kermit will someday now that a process is known.

Someday in the near future, another man will stand out, this man will break the “light barrier” and travel faster then light…

He walked past a couple brooms to cut off the handle of someone using a broom.😂

He was a general by the time he retired.

The government funds and the best engineers. Great pilots are found worldwide, but without the vast funds and resources and the brightest minds to create the amazing aircraft there is no moment in the sun and all the glory which comes from that. Not saying that great pilots grow on trees, just that they're the easiest factor to solve in the equation.

@@jamesshunt5123 Japan tried to establish naval aviation as a "top gun" elite samurai profession open only to the best of the best but after too many of these pilots were lost when four aircraft carriers were sunk at the battle of Midway the Imperial Japanese navy effectively castrated itself just as the American naval reserve and Marine corps reserve pilots gearing up to man the numerous new aircraft carriers being built in stateside shipyards.