Gives me goosebumps.. Yep.. 🇺🇸

Boy does America today need a hero like this.

The very first time an aircraft sonic boom was heard on Earth.

God Speed General Yeager.

Ridley make another note here would you, there must be something wrong with this old Mach meter it just jumped off the scale, but im still going upstairs like a bat out of hell

Balls chico. Balls.

My father’s boss was the son of aviation pioneer Ben Epps. He recently retired and gave those who worked with him for so long, including my father, some things he kept in his office. Among them was a model of the X-1, signed by Chuck Yeager himself only 3 years before his death. Knowing that I love aeronautics as much as he does, my father passed it down to me. It’s one of my most prized possessions.

The soundtrack still gives me goosebumps and damn cry a little...

“America! Fuck yeah!” 🎶 🎼 🎵

"Put the spurs to her Chuck"

I built a model of a b29 superfortress

The General was my neighbor, for many years we talked about flying together……. I miss him deeply He is a legend

❤❤❤❤❤

What’s that sound?!? “A sonic boom!!!”

“What’s that sound?” Why, *”breaching the sound-wall.”*

XRP moon 🌙

Great Scene 🍷🧐👌

If we only has 50 more like him! ❤

One crazy bastard I'd be shitting my pants ...not Chuck cool as can be ...A Legend for sure he will forever be the greatest pilot that ever was

Back then they climbed into an aircraft with a leather flying helmet and goggles Now the F-22 raptor pilots helmet alone probably costs more than those two planes and crew put together

The narrator with Chuck.

By all means read the book( Thomas Wolfe) before you sed the movie.

The Beeman's gum was more important than many people think... chewing gum helped keep Col. Yeager's estuation tubes from closing for very long a time, if they had, there's a very real possibility of him busting out an ear drum from the great altitude / pressure changes. A busted eardrum(s) can result in loss of balance and vertigo, not to mention INTENSE pain. All things you do NOT need to be dealing with when you're Breaking the Sound Barrier after your Horse threw you and broke a couple ribs. Flight Surgeons, the WORST!

How did Pancho Barnes, the woman with the leather coat, and sunlasses get onto Muroc airbase?

Out drinking at a bar the night before he's to make history. Falls off the horse and breaks his ribs and still climbs into the X-1 to break the sound barrier the next day!

The way the video cut out with the boom - you probably think it ended with Yeagar exploding in failure.

4:29...That part is amazing.

my wife had difficulty understanding why it was such a big deal when he broke the sound barrier (not is some blasé way, just not understanding why the planes would continuously crash and he didnt) and what Mach was I told her Mach was the speed of sound - 750 miles per hour. up to that point planes were prop driven, and rocket power was just starting to come into use. she understood that soundwaves are physical properties, much like waves in an ocean. i explained that is when a plane is going below Mach 1 you can hear it coming before it passes you. the sound waves are moving faster than the plane. the closer one gets to Mach 1 (above .96) the waves begin to become compressed, and you're beginning to run into/overtake the sound waves. this is why the plane becomes unstable and the plane would literally shatter and disintegrate. the X1 was designed to withstand this enormous pressure put on the body of the plane, in theory it would work, all they had to do was test it. Yeager took a number of flights over several months in the X1 getting it close to Mach 1 to see how the plane performed before the engineers gave the ok to go for it. it wasn't a one-shot deal as depicted in the movie. we watched the scene several times as i explained the physics of what was happening, i told her watch close, you can see at .98 and .99 the plane is almost out of control, but then suddenly it becomes smooth as glass, on the ground they hear TWO sonic booms almost on top of eachother - the first boom is the nose of the plane going through the sound barrier, the second is the tail. when we watched it again she said excitedly that she now got it and understood, and how cool it was. i quickly showed her some videos on youtube of shuttle launches and i said you can actually SEE when the shuttle breaks the sound barrier, seeing what looks like a bunch of fog suddenly develop around the craft then it goes away as the shuttle goes supersonic. i also explained thats what "Go at throttle up" meant - the shuttle cuts the power of the main engines by about 25% to reduce pressure on the craft, then after they go super sonic they push the engines back up to 103% she loved it

What are these IDIOTS laughing at??? This is FAR from funny.

Amazingly bad editing. The clip ends just in time to cut off the payoff to the whole scene!

This dude shot down jet fighters with a prop airplane during ww2. Later, he went on to break the sound barrier. When anyone mentions ‘American exceptionalism,’ this is the archetype.

Biasimo videoWUSA

Yeager, showing the angels how it's it done. RIP!

Four of us guys were walking to the parking garage at work, and another coworker snapped a picture of us from behind walking shoulder to shoulder. The boss had it framed with the title, "The Wrong stuff" and put it up at work. It's hilarious.

A tin can with fins going 700 mph.

Chuck, you Blue Suit, badass SOB... You make me proud to have worn that same Blue Suit. Rest in Peace...

De 🐦 za genstaff 👸. SEDAM PRVIH MINUTA, od dvd-a , L'ETOFFE DES HEROS. 🐦

The movies great but I just come here to watch this while Free Bird plays in the background

There's some inaccuracies, in 1947 USAAF or USAF should have gotten more modern flight helmets at this point and Chuck Yeager wore a specialised flight suit with that kind of modern flight helmet during that day. (Seach actual news footage on youtube) but in the film they're using late 1930s flight helmets.

Fun fact: in a later interview yeager actually said he didn't hear the sonic boom

HELLO OLYMPE DE GOUGES , comme un avion sans ELLES GISEL ET KRISTELE.TEXAS RANGER 0-0.

Great scene....except you don't wang the handle down. It gets wanged up.

Unesco JAPAN - NICE- MORIGUTCHI........SUGHOI.....SUGOIH.......ALIGATO.....MIKI......BATAJNICA......

Aimant la vie Defiant la mort... ..Calzedonia verticale trip ....

R.I.P. General 🇺🇸 You definitely had The Right Stuff!!!

The flight depicted in this scene was in 1947. The Wright Brothers first flight was 1903 -- just 44 years earlier and Orville Wright was still alive at the time of this flight. That's a lot of change in one person's lifetime.

As a huge Levon Helm fan I will always love the drum-stick twirl he does with the cutoff broom handle.

As a brit i love this film but we brits were as far as you in all expects of rockets and supersonic flight and much more in the way of aircraft technology but or government at the time gave it away under lend lease or couldn't afford it so had to pass on , miles aviation broke the sound barrier first time with a 1/8 scale model , do wish we had film makers That would show us in a good light

I met Brigadier General Yeager some decades ago, and even then he was not young he still had a very sturdy handshake.

That's a man