From 1983: Chuck Yeager on "The Right Stuff"

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  • Опубликовано: 7 дек 2020
  • Test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, died on Monday, December 7 at age 97. In this report that aired on "Sunday Morning" on October 23, 1983, correspondent David Dow went behind the scenes of the film "The Right Stuff" to talk with Yeager, and with director Philip Kaufman, about recreating a milestone event in mankind's journey to space.
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  • @marktheaardvark7208
    @marktheaardvark7208 3 года назад +44

    You don’t have to be good to be a legend, all you have to do is live.
    What a great line.

  • @on2wheels378
    @on2wheels378 3 года назад +68

    RIP General. You are admired, honored and missed.

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      @reesefrank9390 2 года назад

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  • @jeffgast7215
    @jeffgast7215 3 года назад +18

    We need more Chuck Yeagers today. We need them more than ever. He sums up everything about being American. Not afraid to take a chance and risk to become exceptional!!!

  • @gracie2298
    @gracie2298 3 года назад +44

    I read his autobiography many decades ago and was absolutely intrigued by it. What a fascinating life he had and he just took it in stride. Always saddens me when someone leaves us, however I think 97 years on this earth he lived his time wisely. Thank you Sir for your contributions!

    • @stephenspears3206
      @stephenspears3206 3 года назад +4

      I have read his autobiography as well. I was honored to know that I was related to him and get to read about his exploits in WW2 and in the years afterwards. I got to learn a few things about him from family related to him long before the book came out too. But some of the other things I didn't know about either.

    • @michaelreid1209
      @michaelreid1209 3 года назад +2

      As much as i admire his achievements, his racist attitude and attempts to ostracise the first african american astronaut trainee do taint his record

    • @thomasposey1757
      @thomasposey1757 2 года назад +2

      @@michaelreid1209 Always about race isn't it ?

    • @cockeyedoptimista
      @cockeyedoptimista Год назад +1

      @@michaelreid1209 I didn't know about that. Do you by any chance know the name of this trainee?

    • @michaelreid1209
      @michaelreid1209 Год назад +2

      @@cockeyedoptimista I think its Ed Dwight, can’t fully remember but i’ll go have a look and get back to you

  • @etchersplace
    @etchersplace 3 года назад +53

    It's sad that it's the end of an era, but boy did he have one incredible life!!! Blue skies, General.

  • @billybob2372
    @billybob2372 3 года назад +20

    He wasn't allowed to be an astronaut because he didn't have a college education, yet he was the best. He was the one with the right stuff

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад +2

      He was one of the best

    • @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl
      @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl 7 месяцев назад

      Exactly RightI ❤

    • @L_3551
      @L_3551 Месяц назад

      There was good reason to have a degree as a requirement. All of the early astronauts worked hand in hand with the contractors that designed and built the spacecraft they flew in.
      A lot were trained engineers.

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 3 года назад +6

    A man brimming with The Right Stuff.
    It was great seeing him in a cameo role.

  • @stephenspears3206
    @stephenspears3206 3 года назад +26

    Uncle "Chuck" Yeager is my great uncle. And I am so proud to say that. Wish I had met him before he died this past December 7th. But my dad who was his nephew, had met him as a kid in West Virginia.

    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 3 года назад

      Once again,RUclips has a surprised me with you graciously showing respect and love for a legend that happened to be a part of you’re family. 🙏🙌❤️

    • @lynngregory393
      @lynngregory393 2 года назад +1

      Your uncle is still a great example for America!

    • @heatcheck3
      @heatcheck3 Год назад +3

      Your dad only met his uncle one time? That’s strange.

    • @colonelharland7833
      @colonelharland7833 Год назад +2

      Why didn't you try to meet him?

    • @stephenspears3206
      @stephenspears3206 Год назад

      I don't know. Never even been to California my entire life. Wish I had.

  • @sunflowerz54
    @sunflowerz54 3 года назад +17

    A National Treasure !! RIP BEYOND THE STARS

  • @oceanhome2023
    @oceanhome2023 3 года назад +28

    The first time I saw a jet (Me262) I shot it down ! -Chuck Yeager

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 3 года назад +10

    Seen the movie. Liked it a lot. Lived through some of those times and I recall that you'd see or hear on the radio or TV snippets of these doings. It's likely hard to understand for the newer generations that the math that made all of this possible was done with, more or less, with a sheet of paper a pencil, and a pocket slide rule. Them were the days indeed.

  • @LloydAntonyLB
    @LloydAntonyLB 3 года назад +8

    One of my favorite movies!

    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 3 года назад +1

      I was never interested in it until last year. After watching it online i had to buy the best copy i could. A beautiful blu ray with a book fitted it perfectly. I’m actually going to watch it in about half an hour. It’s one of the greatest true movies ever made.. by a mile

  • @DEADLOK69
    @DEADLOK69 3 года назад +16

    We want to thank you for your service, General. No matter the odds, you accomplished the impossible.

  • @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl
    @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl 7 месяцев назад +2

    One of my favorite, Movies, bevcause
    These flyers are my child hood ,Hero's!😊

  • @mikefarrell885
    @mikefarrell885 3 года назад +10

    “Who’s the best pilot I ever saw? There was one guy I once saw who really had the right.....”

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад +5

      Gordo

    • @RockHudrock
      @RockHudrock 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/EqPkIgBqMCY/видео.html

  • @mousenmcclintock
    @mousenmcclintock 3 года назад +6

    I like how the reporters make locust sounds, when they "swarm".

  • @boruff68
    @boruff68 3 года назад +17

    "Sir, over there, is that a man????? ""Yeah," You're damn right it is !!!! " :)

  • @user-vm5ud4xw6n
    @user-vm5ud4xw6n 3 года назад +20

    “You don’t have to be good to be a legend, you just gotta live.” That may be so but being good goes a long way towards keeping you alive! After 97 years I would say Chuck was REAL good!

    • @adzaaahhh
      @adzaaahhh 3 года назад +3

      And a genuinely nice person even after all the accolades. That's a rare thing in this day and age. Chuck you are sorely missed x

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад +4

      He also listened. Back in the day, if Jack Ridley told him not to fly a plane, he wouldn't.

  • @yankeeladee02
    @yankeeladee02 3 года назад +6

    Rest in paradise, Mr. Yeager🕊 🇺🇸

  • @peregrinec5477
    @peregrinec5477 3 года назад +12

    The word has been given. God's Speed, Col. Yeager.

  • @rodbutler4054
    @rodbutler4054 3 месяца назад +1

    Gen Yeager came up the hard way, he was an aircraft mechanic that went to flight school in WWII and had that naturally flying ability that made him an ace over Europe.He was shot down over France and smuggled back to England where he pleaded not to be sent back home with Gen Eisenhower as was customary until the war ended. He made General because he was an inspiration to everyone including politicians.

  • @esinohio
    @esinohio Год назад +2

    Second star to the right and straight on till morning Mr. Yeager.

  • @Guitcad1
    @Guitcad1 8 месяцев назад +1

    I recognized Chuck Yeager's voice right away from all those AC Delco commercials.

  • @ekris4817
    @ekris4817 3 года назад +3

    “If you survive, you survive. If you don’t, you don’t.” A Lost generation.

  • @shackdaddy7106
    @shackdaddy7106 3 года назад +19

    Chuck Yeager was a true American hero. First human to fly at supersonic speed way back in 1947. 73 years ago. In my opinion, he was the first pioneer astronaut though he never got to fly in space. It would’ve been nice if NASA had given him a chance later in life to fly on the space shuttle like they did John Glenn.

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад

      Maybe they asked him

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 3 года назад

      @@kbanghart Well there is nothing documented that saying that they did. He was not one of the original seven mercury astronauts. Or Gemini. Or Apollo. It is possible that may be all he wanted to do was fly fast jets. And there certainly is nothing wrong with that. Pushing the envelope is one of the definitions of progress.

    • @rbeck3200tb40
      @rbeck3200tb40 3 года назад +2

      Chuck Yeager was on the US government committee to select the first astronauts in the 1950s .He was part of the group that setup NASA back then it was called NACA. People also dont know that he was a fighter pilot in WW 2 and was shot down over France and escaped by crossing over the Pyraness mountains into Spain pretending to be a French citizen then took a ship back to England and rejoined his fighter squadron and continued flying in the war.

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart Год назад

      ​@@shackdaddy7106 so maybe they did . 🤷

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 Год назад

      @@kbanghart and maybe they didn’t.

  • @1953moe
    @1953moe 3 года назад +2

    One of my heroes. He definitely had the right stuff.

  • @az0970449
    @az0970449 3 года назад +7

    look ahead rest in peace MR YEAGER !!!!

  • @Qartoffeln1
    @Qartoffeln1 3 года назад +2

    Great book. Great movie. Chuck the Legend.

  • @trishthehomesteader9873
    @trishthehomesteader9873 3 года назад +6

    Great piece about a great man. Too bad the audio wasn't up to Sunday Morning's standard. 🤨

  • @rosemaryora1378
    @rosemaryora1378 3 года назад +2

    I think you really were, and will remain, the king of flight. When I want to remember how to live, I watch you

  • @Chief6067
    @Chief6067 7 месяцев назад

    I knew the General personally, he was an amazing man and I will forever remember our conversations early in the morning while we are fresh fruit together from a fruit stand he used to stop by on his way from his home to my place of work.
    He was down to earth and a regular guy.
    I miss him

  • @williameichner7177
    @williameichner7177 3 года назад +7

    You also had to have titanium balls

  • @jimholloway9850
    @jimholloway9850 3 года назад +1

    So long, old friend.

  • @DanielMulloy-bg6gw
    @DanielMulloy-bg6gw Год назад

    I met him at an air show at Maple Shade when I was a teenager in the 1980s.... I didn't realize at the time that I would always remember that moment!

  • @lilkris3008
    @lilkris3008 2 года назад

    Thank you general for making sure it was told the way it should be my childhood favorite movie and what got me into aviation. The right stuff is a must watch for anyone wanting to know what the right stuff really is and spoilers but the show you in the beginning of the movie

  • @edyann
    @edyann 3 года назад +8

    I was 5 in 1983.. wow.. I'M OLD. 🙈😅

    • @yankeeladee02
      @yankeeladee02 3 года назад +3

      Ummm... No!! 😉

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 года назад +2

      @@yankeeladee02 I am. But thanks..🥰

    • @yankeeladee02
      @yankeeladee02 3 года назад +1

      @@edyann 😘

    • @DJK3115
      @DJK3115 3 года назад +3

      It's all relative. I was 28 in 1983.
      Chuck Yeager was 97 when he passed away yesterday.
      He was amazing. He is reported to have flown 360 different aircraft.

    • @yankeeladee02
      @yankeeladee02 3 года назад +2

      @@DJK3115 So impressive! I was 13 in 83 and what a great time to be a teen. Wonderful memories. #Blessed☮️💟

  • @kencraft2751
    @kencraft2751 3 года назад

    Spoken like a true hero!

  • @thefish8002
    @thefish8002 5 месяцев назад

    What an American Icon!

  • @andrewhillis2269
    @andrewhillis2269 3 года назад

    Inspirational ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @oceanhome2023
    @oceanhome2023 3 года назад +7

    There’s Old Pilots and Bold Pilots.....but there are No Old Bold pilots ! Chuck Yeager

  • @raulhernandez4300
    @raulhernandez4300 3 года назад

    What a great man!!!

  • @RealMTBAddict
    @RealMTBAddict 3 года назад +7

    Why can't CBS hire a real editor so we can HEAR the video? My stereo is on MAX volume and I can't hear anything.

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 года назад

      FWI, I didn’t have any problem hearing it at mid volume levels.

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 3 года назад

      @@nmelkhunter1 what's FWI?

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 года назад

      @@RealMTBAddict For what it’s worth. Typo on my part.

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 3 года назад

      @@nmelkhunter1 huh. Listening through a stereo it is very quiet. Everything else is loud.

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 года назад

      @@RealMTBAddict I’m using an iPad. Maybe that’s the difference.

  • @SladeBling
    @SladeBling 17 дней назад

    You don't have to be good to be a legend, but you do need big balls. Chuck had big balls.

  • @danfreeman9079
    @danfreeman9079 6 месяцев назад

    General Yeager also flew one time as a VIP in the SR-71 Blackbird.

  • @user-ql3mm2to2y
    @user-ql3mm2to2y 3 года назад

    great movie

  • @carlosbrites8201
    @carlosbrites8201 Год назад

    Legend,glorius.!

  • @marioparedes4936
    @marioparedes4936 7 месяцев назад

    Ole chuck, just a simple man,

  • @DM-qp7do
    @DM-qp7do 3 года назад +1

    The Right Stuff is the only movie I've ever bought on RUclips

  • @joekurtz8303
    @joekurtz8303 3 года назад +1

    Read excerpts as a kid in Readers Digest by Yeager, and other aviation pioneers in the space program.

  • @janantoni3
    @janantoni3 3 года назад +1

    "Ya got any beemans?"

  • @fasteddie4145
    @fasteddie4145 3 года назад +4

    Chuck Norris got his Man-Card from Chuck Yeager......

  • @dougc190
    @dougc190 3 года назад +3

    Man that scene with Gus grissom just makes me sad. If it wasn't for Apollo 1 he would have been the first man on the Moon. If you don't believe me look it up. they wanted a Mercury astronaut for the Moon.

    • @davidleonard8369
      @davidleonard8369 2 года назад +2

      Unforgivable what Tom wolf did to Gus. If it wasn't for the malfunction of the hatch on his mercury spacecraft the Apollo 1 astronauts would have been able too escape from the fire.

  • @ardiffley-zipkin9539
    @ardiffley-zipkin9539 2 года назад

    “What is thar sound ?” That’s the sound of a new age.

  • @transientcylon
    @transientcylon Год назад

    I had the privilege to fly with Mr. Yeager. None of these fictionalizations come close to what a Lion he was. He is the antithesis of "never meet your hero". He was a legend among men to a 14 year old boy. He treated me like an equal (of course I was not). He will always be legend in my history.

  • @tipakongphan3250
    @tipakongphan3250 3 года назад +5

    I​ read​ the​ book, its​ better​ than​ the​ movie.

    • @marktheaardvark7208
      @marktheaardvark7208 3 года назад

      Agreed

    • @cateclism316
      @cateclism316 3 года назад

      In his autobiography John Glenn said it should have been titled, "Laurel and Hardy Go To Space"

  • @darenmyers3795
    @darenmyers3795 3 года назад

    the greatest ever General Chuck Yeager

  • @lewisjones4158
    @lewisjones4158 3 года назад

    Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, in darkened storm or sunlight glare. O, hear us when we lift our prayer, for those in peril in the air. A-men.
    R.I.P Chuck "Flyboy" Yeager

  • @thevillaaston7811
    @thevillaaston7811 Год назад

    Chuck Yeager was the Franz von Werra of the US air force.

  • @DMEseter
    @DMEseter 3 года назад +1

    Born in 82 never heard of mr Yeager ... RIP

    • @larrysmith6797
      @larrysmith6797 3 года назад

      Go back to gaming in Mom's basement. Graduated public high school, right?

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 года назад

      @@larrysmith6797 Sad but true.

  • @dmendez77
    @dmendez77 3 года назад

    Blue skies Yeager!!!

  • @ronzakrin4966
    @ronzakrin4966 Год назад

    Just saw this flick and it came out when I was 11. Yeager was the boss.

  • @Mogget01
    @Mogget01 7 месяцев назад

    Oh look, an actual real life super hero

  • @billofrightsamend4
    @billofrightsamend4 Год назад

    I think he is/was a good pilot. He was a kinetic pilot, he could tell how the jet was maneuvering. He had that ability to stay calm and think what he had to do. Plus... something was watching out for him.

  • @billwessels207
    @billwessels207 2 года назад

    Yeager also recommended the filming of Top Gun.

  • @ricardopoloni5452
    @ricardopoloni5452 3 года назад

    I like the way that woman smiles at 7:36. She is dying to kiss him. Her facial expression says it clearly. This was not a common scene. Beautiful woman.

  • @JackieDannenberg
    @JackieDannenberg 3 года назад +1

    At the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11, the remaining six Mercury astronauts were interviewed as a group. When the topic of THE RIGHT STUFF was brought up, Wally Schirra referred to it as “that movie”. They weren’t impressed. It’s Hollywood after all. Can’t expect truth and accuracy from them.

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад +1

      Lol silly comment. Everyone knows that was a great movie. Movies aren't real life, or documentaries, they are movies.

  • @the1darknight
    @the1darknight 3 года назад

    RIP General Jaeger and Charles Kuralt

  • @archerpiperii2690
    @archerpiperii2690 3 года назад

    @0:06 "buckets of bolts..." nice condescending remark from someone who doesn't have the right stuff.

  • @RockHudrock
    @RockHudrock 3 года назад

    Sooooooo many commercials 🥴

  • @jeffzuiderveen7266
    @jeffzuiderveen7266 3 года назад +13

    That generation fought a war on 2 fronts, broke the sound barrier, went to the moon....THIS generation can't figure out if they are boys or girls, eats tide pods on a dare, and gets PTSD when their phone dies.

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 года назад

      THIS generation is doing just fine and better than the previous generation, probably

    • @christopherdoff-sotta4441
      @christopherdoff-sotta4441 3 года назад +1

      plen. you woulndt know what honor, courage and committment means. sit down and shut up..

    • @christopherdoff-sotta4441
      @christopherdoff-sotta4441 3 года назад

      this generation of tide pod eaters get but hurt hillary dont get elected. but they got joe now and not even with him are they happy... bunch of cry babies...

  • @cynthianolder3557
    @cynthianolder3557 2 года назад +1

    Awful volume

  • @WizzRacing
    @WizzRacing 3 года назад +1

    John Glen sold his vote for a Space Shuttle ride... He burned his whole career to that....

  • @FLOODOFSINS
    @FLOODOFSINS 3 года назад +3

    I bet this is where the Jager bomb came from

  • @patstokes7040
    @patstokes7040 Год назад

    Sam Shepard is a handsome man.

  • @AnnieKeating
    @AnnieKeating 2 года назад

    Thanks for posting! If you have a minute, I uploaded some original tunes. As a fellow music fan, I'd love if you would check it out. It's on my channel. I appreciate it!

  • @amlafrance1918
    @amlafrance1918 3 года назад

    CBS couldn’t do a patriotic balanced interview now. I guess all those astronauts that burned up on the pad were Privileged .?

    • @WesCoastPiano
      @WesCoastPiano 3 года назад +1

      Reagan killed the fairness doctorine.
      Bring it back and end corporate propaganda.

  • @alonzojohnson7955
    @alonzojohnson7955 3 года назад

    🙅🏻

  • @phredharvey7428
    @phredharvey7428 3 года назад +2

    It was all political RIP General Yeager

  • @larrysweetser4198
    @larrysweetser4198 3 года назад

    Northrop F-5G or F-20 Tigershark... Should have been Americas next generation aggressor.

    • @TheLottolandus
      @TheLottolandus 3 года назад

      Chuck said that it was the best plane he ever flew, the F-20.

  • @andrewlambert7246
    @andrewlambert7246 3 года назад +1

    Chuck Yeager helped Pakistan airforce to defeat Indian airforce in 1971 Indo-pakistan. India won war and destroyed Chucks aircraft on the ground. He may have been a good test pilot but he was no good general in airwar.

    • @rogerbee697
      @rogerbee697 3 года назад

      And he is a national hero and you’re a nobody. And when you die, The nation wont know or care...OK? Is there any other nonsensical, irrelevant crap you’d like to state?

  • @JayStar-yj9pu
    @JayStar-yj9pu Месяц назад

    Propaganda