From 1983: Chuck Yeager on "The Right Stuff"

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  • 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 роки тому +43

    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 роки тому +68

    RIP General. You are admired, honored and missed.

    • @eddiecorbin2773
      @eddiecorbin2773 2 роки тому

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      @reesefrank9390 2 роки тому

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      @eddiecorbin2773 2 роки тому

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      @eddiecorbin2773 2 роки тому

      @Reese Frank It did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy!
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    • @reesefrank9390
      @reesefrank9390 2 роки тому

      @Eddie Corbin no problem :)

  • @etchersplace
    @etchersplace 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +19

    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 роки тому +2

      He was one of the best

    • @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl
      @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl 7 місяців тому

      Exactly RightI ❤

    • @L_3551
      @L_3551 14 днів тому

      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.

  • @jeffgast7215
    @jeffgast7215 3 роки тому +17

    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 роки тому +43

    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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

      @@michaelreid1209 Always about race isn't it ?

    • @cockeyedoptimista
      @cockeyedoptimista Рік тому +1

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

    • @michaelreid1209
      @michaelreid1209 Рік тому +2

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

  • @stephenspears3206
    @stephenspears3206 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

      Once again,UA-cam 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 роки тому +1

      Your uncle is still a great example for America!

    • @heatcheck3
      @heatcheck3 Рік тому +3

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

    • @colonelharland7833
      @colonelharland7833 11 місяців тому +2

      Why didn't you try to meet him?

    • @stephenspears3206
      @stephenspears3206 11 місяців тому

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

  • @oceanhome2023
    @oceanhome2023 3 роки тому +28

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

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @DEADLOK69
    @DEADLOK69 3 роки тому +16

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

  • @sunflowerz54
    @sunflowerz54 3 роки тому +17

    A National Treasure !! RIP BEYOND THE STARS

  • @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl
    @MichaelSlattery-sh8vl 7 місяців тому +2

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

  • @LloydAntonyLB
    @LloydAntonyLB 3 роки тому +8

    One of my favorite movies!

    • @thunderwarrior1759
      @thunderwarrior1759 3 роки тому +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

  • @mikefarrell885
    @mikefarrell885 3 роки тому +10

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

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart 3 роки тому +5

      Gordo

    • @RockHudrock
      @RockHudrock 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/EqPkIgBqMCY/v-deo.html

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 3 роки тому +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.

  • @user-vm5ud4xw6n
    @user-vm5ud4xw6n 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +4

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

  • @boruff68
    @boruff68 3 роки тому +17

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

  • @ekris4817
    @ekris4817 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @mousenmcclintock
    @mousenmcclintock 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @shackdaddy7106
    @shackdaddy7106 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

      Maybe they asked him

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 3 роки тому

      @@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 роки тому +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 Рік тому

      ​@@shackdaddy7106 so maybe they did . 🤷

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 Рік тому

      @@kbanghart and maybe they didn’t.

  • @esinohio
    @esinohio Рік тому +2

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

  • @peregrinec5477
    @peregrinec5477 3 роки тому +12

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

  • @yankeeladee02
    @yankeeladee02 3 роки тому +6

    Rest in paradise, Mr. Yeager🕊 🇺🇸

  • @1953moe
    @1953moe 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @rodbutler4054
    @rodbutler4054 3 місяці тому +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.

  • @az0970449
    @az0970449 3 роки тому +7

    look ahead rest in peace MR YEAGER !!!!

  • @Qartoffeln1
    @Qartoffeln1 3 роки тому +2

    Great book. Great movie. Chuck the Legend.

  • @Chief6067
    @Chief6067 6 місяців тому

    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

  • @jimholloway9850
    @jimholloway9850 3 роки тому +1

    So long, old friend.

  • @rosemaryora1378
    @rosemaryora1378 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @DanielMulloy-bg6gw
    @DanielMulloy-bg6gw Рік тому

    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!

  • @kencraft2751
    @kencraft2751 3 роки тому

    Spoken like a true hero!

  • @williameichner7177
    @williameichner7177 3 роки тому +7

    You also had to have titanium balls

  • @oceanhome2023
    @oceanhome2023 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @trishthehomesteader9873
    @trishthehomesteader9873 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @raulhernandez4300
    @raulhernandez4300 3 роки тому

    What a great man!!!

  • @SladeBling
    @SladeBling День тому

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

  • @carlosbrites8201
    @carlosbrites8201 Рік тому

    Legend,glorius.!

  • @andrewhillis2269
    @andrewhillis2269 3 роки тому

    Inspirational ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @edyann
    @edyann 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @yankeeladee02
      @yankeeladee02 3 роки тому +3

      Ummm... No!! 😉

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 роки тому +2

      @@yankeeladee02 I am. But thanks..🥰

    • @yankeeladee02
      @yankeeladee02 3 роки тому +1

      @@edyann 😘

    • @DJK3115
      @DJK3115 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

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

  • @lilkris3008
    @lilkris3008 2 роки тому

    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

  • @Guitcad1
    @Guitcad1 8 місяців тому

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

  • @thefish8002
    @thefish8002 4 місяці тому

    What an American Icon!

  • @dougc190
    @dougc190 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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.

  • @DM-qp7do
    @DM-qp7do 3 роки тому +1

    The Right Stuff is the only movie I've ever bought on UA-cam

  • @user-ql3mm2to2y
    @user-ql3mm2to2y 3 роки тому

    great movie

  • @danfreeman9079
    @danfreeman9079 5 місяців тому

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

  • @fasteddie4145
    @fasteddie4145 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @marioparedes4936
    @marioparedes4936 7 місяців тому

    Ole chuck, just a simple man,

  • @tipakongphan3250
    @tipakongphan3250 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @joekurtz8303
    @joekurtz8303 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @transientcylon
    @transientcylon Рік тому

    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.

  • @darenmyers3795
    @darenmyers3795 3 роки тому

    the greatest ever General Chuck Yeager

  • @janantoni3
    @janantoni3 3 роки тому +1

    "Ya got any beemans?"

  • @RealMTBAddict
    @RealMTBAddict 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

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

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 3 роки тому

      @@nmelkhunter1 what's FWI?

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 роки тому

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

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 3 роки тому

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

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 роки тому

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

  • @lewisjones4158
    @lewisjones4158 3 роки тому

    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

  • @ardiffley-zipkin9539
    @ardiffley-zipkin9539 Рік тому

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

  • @dmendez77
    @dmendez77 3 роки тому

    Blue skies Yeager!!!

  • @DMEseter
    @DMEseter 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @larrysmith6797
      @larrysmith6797 3 роки тому

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

    • @nmelkhunter1
      @nmelkhunter1 3 роки тому

      @@larrysmith6797 Sad but true.

  • @billofrightsamend4
    @billofrightsamend4 Рік тому

    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.

  • @thevillaaston7811
    @thevillaaston7811 Рік тому

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

  • @ronzakrin4966
    @ronzakrin4966 Рік тому

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

  • @billwessels207
    @billwessels207 2 роки тому

    Yeager also recommended the filming of Top Gun.

  • @ricardopoloni5452
    @ricardopoloni5452 3 роки тому

    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 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

  • @Mogget01
    @Mogget01 6 місяців тому

    Oh look, an actual real life super hero

  • @jeffzuiderveen7266
    @jeffzuiderveen7266 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

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

    • @christopherdoff-sotta4441
      @christopherdoff-sotta4441 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @christopherdoff-sotta4441
      @christopherdoff-sotta4441 3 роки тому

      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...

  • @the1darknight
    @the1darknight 2 роки тому

    RIP General Jaeger and Charles Kuralt

  • @archerpiperii2690
    @archerpiperii2690 3 роки тому

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

  • @RockHudrock
    @RockHudrock 3 роки тому

    Sooooooo many commercials 🥴

  • @cynthianolder3557
    @cynthianolder3557 2 роки тому +1

    Awful volume

  • @WizzRacing
    @WizzRacing 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @patstokes7040
    @patstokes7040 Рік тому

    Sam Shepard is a handsome man.

  • @FLOODOFSINS
    @FLOODOFSINS 3 роки тому +3

    I bet this is where the Jager bomb came from

  • @phredharvey7428
    @phredharvey7428 3 роки тому +2

    It was all political RIP General Yeager

  • @AnnieKeating
    @AnnieKeating 2 роки тому

    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 роки тому

    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 роки тому +1

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

  • @larrysweetser4198
    @larrysweetser4198 3 роки тому

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

    • @TheLottolandus
      @TheLottolandus 3 роки тому

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

  • @andrewlambert7246
    @andrewlambert7246 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

      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?

  • @alonzojohnson7955
    @alonzojohnson7955 3 роки тому

    🙅🏻

  • @JayStar-yj9pu
    @JayStar-yj9pu 22 дні тому

    Propaganda