The Right Stuff

[Watcher3223]

Just from this short clip, you can see exactly why this movie won Academy Awards for Best Original Score, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Sound, and Best Editing.

Even the sound effects can move you emotionally. Every piece of sound and every piece of music is tightly done.

The editing of the film is also brilliant. One scene that shows just how brilliant the editing was: when John Glenn is re-entering Earth's atmosphere. It *seamlessly* switches from a fiery reentry to a ticker tape parade.

[TheeRealJRCroblox]

This is my birthday, but 50 years earlier.

[TheJabberwock]

What a Gustav Holst rip! Just like how Apocalypse Now's music is a Tomita Planets rip!

[Watcher3223]

@TheJabberwock

In reference to Gustav Holst, the Planets Suite was a direct inspiration to Bill Conti's score.

A portion of the score in this scene does make use of the same general feel of the first few seconds of Jupiter.

With John Glenn's Mercury mission of orbiting the earth in the movie, Conti did not compose the music at all during the launch sequence. Portions of Mars, Jupiter and Neptune were used for those scenes.

When he begins his orbit, Conti's original score is used.

[cosmicdingo]

Actually, Slick had no direct control of a ROCKET plane, they aerodynamics weren't right yet.Notice how the x-1 had straight wings, making brute horsepower neccesary.

[DaCoolKid1212]

4:29 the sound that made history

[blacbraun]

The Germans invented the V2 rockets during the war. Were these not supersonic? I'm thinking if they were this wasn't the first time a sonic boom was heard. Technically a whip breaks the sound barrier and the crack is a sonic boom too.

[dude58677]

"They were called test pilots and no one knew their names."

[HeliosPhoenix]

Yeager said that if he actually did the supersonic aileron roll shown after this clipd "They would've found the X-1's nose sticking out of the ground in China."

[nenzi671]

I thought it was funny to see Chuck(Sam) don that leather helmet. What good is that going to do for him when he is in a rocket that he can't eject from when it crashes? Nothing at all.

[rangerbobcat]

@nenzi671 It helps if you bang your head against the inside

of the cockpit during an extreme manuver

[dryque2006]

@nenzi671 its just a post wwII pilots helmet

[Triclopse1]

I wish I could so that!

[PsychoCheese1337]

Put the spurs to her Chuck!

[gumby2504]

Unlike the in movie, Yeager flew the X1 on numerous fights before breaking the sound barrier. He did not just jump in the plane and do it on his first flight.

Slick Goodlin was shaking down Bell & the Air Force for more money, so they got Yearger to fly it.

READ THE BOOK!

[YDDES]

Very well created scene. Actually they had a part of an old B-29 fuselage leased from a museum and a wooden X-1 mockup in a studio. Plus some models and real "news-reel" segments for the exterior shots.

[beenthere1run]

chuck should have gave credit to slick goodlin, but instead he lied about slick and made him look bad. Shame on that old asshole. Hes no hero. There were pilots 50 times better than yeager.

[BeLikeWater1000]

@beenthere1run your a moron...goodlin flew some good flyin in that airplane but simply wouldnt push it past mach, didnt have the BALLS ......u fail asshole

[beenthere1run]

slick goodlin was the real hero of the X1 plane. Chuck took the glory after someone else did all the work.

[Hammeron2M]

Buble gum to pop your ears :D

[icunowlibra]

what was the name of that red plane?

[zorkifan]

It was a Bell X-1, named Glamorous Glennis by Yeager. Glennis was Yeager's wife.

[icunowlibra]

cheers :)

[datzfast]

orange

[Snotra]

He used love taps on that stick!

[hazelwood55]

They cut off the very best part of the scene at the end. There is the sonic boom, and someone says " What's that sound, oh God". Then in the movie he says "He bought the farm" and then yeager goes flying by. Love this movie.

[bus114]

Great scene.

This moment was interesting in showing the transition from early flight to the beginning of the space age. He climbs into a rocket plane about to go supersonic -- wearing a leather jacket, leather helmet, and goggles!

[NVanWendy]

...and chewing Beeman's!

[mathiastheok]

Chuck will always be the fastest Man around.....

[Nano022289X]

well now this is a scene that i havent seen in a long time.

[motorTranz]

Makes me proud to be an American! I'm getting sweaty eyeballs. Thanks for this video!

[Charlie265]

Met Yeager at an auto show years ago with my young son....got some pics too! I told my boy that if he grew up to be like Gen Yeager he'd make me proud!

[Greenandscaly]

First sonic boom ever heard!

[simoriski]

Greatest hero of all time!

[MosheNL]

me grandma would send me 2 sticks of Beemans in her letters 1950's.

[UUnitedwesucKK]

anyone know the tune?

[Dreaded88]

It's Jupiter's Theme from Gustav Hulst's The Planets

[almighty777]

i watched this in class a few days ago lol, awsome movie

[pandy280677]

Today is the 14th October 2007! The 60th anniversary of Yeager's famous supersonic flight! :)