Nice 3-D simulation using DCS but isn't the transonic region before Mach 1?, why does he say "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region" after passing Mach 1 as shown by the Mach meter?. I guess that you could have shown the Mach meter passing mach 1 AFTER Chuck said "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region". Correct me if I am wrong about the transonic region.
I had the great good fortune to be stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in 1966 and 67, and I actually had an opportunity to get up close and personal to the nf-104. While I was walking to my shop one morning, it was just sitting there between the hangers and I had to walk right past it. Of course I had to stop and look at it, and do a walk-around. I always thought that the f-104 was one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built, but this thing was so impressive with its reaction nozzles on the wings and in the nose, and the rocket installed above the exhaust pipe was just incredible. Your video was one of the best recreations of how the nf-104 operated. Thank you very much, for bringing back that memory.
I was astonished when told by a flight line engineer attached to the NF-104 project that the flat spin was actually part of the planned, normal mission profile. The idea was to take the aircraft up to max altitude and speed on the engine until it flamed out and then ignite the rocket engine and climb until the fuel exhausted. The reaction control jets were never intended to do more than minor adjustments to pitch, roll and yaw at max altitude. I believe that they only put out about 100-200 newtons of force. By comparison, punching someone as hard and fast as you can with your bare hand creates several thousand newtons. After rocket fuel was exhausted, the pilot was expected to take the NF-104A into a flat spin and attempt to relight the jet engine once the altitude was down to around 30,000 feet or so. That left basically seconds of safety margin if the engine did not relight, and the normal F-104s J-79 engines were known to have engine relight “challenges”. F-104s tend to fall like a rock when thrust is lost. It does not really glide. Thrust keeps it aloft. It takes the steady hand of an expert pilot to keep them in the air. The same engineer told me that the first time they tried this, they found that the tail feathers of the engine and the aft fuselage had been crushed like a beer can into a cone shape. The NF-104A must have almost looked like it had two nose cones. One in the front, one under the tail. Support structures had to be reworked to prevent it from happening again. Three NF-104As were created. One crashed, one had an engine explosion but still landed safely. No one dared to take the third up much more after that, because of all rather obvious the “holes” in the flight performance envelope. Extremely dangerous in all respects, even for a planned, normal mission, but it was the best semi-out-of-the-box tech solution we had at the time to explore high altitude aircraft performance until other dedicated aircraft could be designed and created.
It’s honestly astonishing that General Yeager lived as long as he did. He served in so much combat, in so many different frames, tested so many different dangerous experimentals, and pulled so many stunts that he truly was a statistical anomaly of the most extreme variety.
He addressed this a few times in interviews saying he was both "lucky" and very focused on what the plane was telling him, especially given his background as an aviation mechanic.
The cows hearing the sonic boom makes this stand out and kudos for the accuracy. I totally enjoyed this and in fact I'm going to watch it again. Right now.
Thank you J.P. For creating this beautiful tribute to Chuck Yeager and all the test pilots who flew in those early days of space flight. You've given us both the look and feel of a small piece of not only American History but global history, without those amazingly skilled pilots back then space flight we know today would not be possible. Thank you also for showing us not only with this but all your DCS Movies what truly can be done in DCS World if we give it our passion and support. I can't wait to see your next video production you are an amazing independent producer/director who makes content that inspires and fulfils the dreams of virtual pilots everywhere.
If I got a nickel for everything a film with the name “the right stuff” got an award I’ve had 2 nickels. Which isn’t weird, it’s just weird that it Happened twice.
This was and is utterly brilliant - real life is infinitely more thrilling than any movie. I was delighted to hear the opening bars of Debussy's 'Claire de Lune' at 6:29 when the moon comes into view - a very stylish touch indeed ! This short film is a masterpiece, and JP is to be congratulated on such stunningly fine work.
I did not realise that the NF-104 had Reaction Control Systems installed like that! Thank you for a gripping short story. I remember watching the scene in "The Right Stuff", and you could have easily inserted this sequence in there to markedly improve the original movie. Well done. Well done indeed.
I never knew it had the 6,000 lb/st rocket motor for upper stratosphere assist. Definitely didn't know about the forward RCS. Was it the same system used on Gemini capsules?
@@SloaneLasers Similar but not the same. To my knowledge, The NF-104 had 13 rockets- 1 for thrust, the rest for RCS. The Gemini? “Two separate systems were required: the orbit attitude and maneuvering system (OAMS) and the reaction or reentry control system (RCS). The OAMS, located in the adapter section, had four functions: (1) providing the thrust required to enable the spacecraft to rendezvous with the target vehicle; (2) controlling the attitude of the spacecraft in orbit; (3) separating the spacecraft from the second stage of the launch vehicle and inserting it in orbit; and (4) providing abort capability at altitudes between 300,000 feet and orbital insertion. The OAMS initially comprised 16 ablative thrust chambers; eight 25-pound thrusters to control the spacecraft attitude in pitch, yaw, and roll axes; and eight 100-pound thrusters to maneuvre the spacecraft axially, vertically, and laterally. Rather than providing a redundant system, only critical components were to be duplicated. The RCS was located forward of the crew compartment in an independent RCS module. It consisted of two completely independent systems, each containing eight 25-pound thrusters very similar to those used in the OAMS. The purpose of the RCS was to maintain the attitude of the spacecraft during the reentry phase of the mission.” -the astronautix website AKA Encyclopedia Astronautica
The way this scene was portrayed in the movie was that Yeager was taking an unplanned flight, but the controllers just "let him do it, because he's Yeager." I like this version better.
You truly captured the legacy of the movie and honoured Philip Kaufman with this amazing work! I was just a little kid when I went with my father to watch “The right stuff” at the theatre. I remained thrilled by the movie and then I decided to become an aerospace engineer due to that movie. All my life has been influenced by that experience. Actually watching this movie again and again reconnects me now with the loving memory of my father and the man I am now. When the first notes of the Yaeger theme started I had chills. Thank you for this superb work.
Rode dirt bikes out to where chuck had crashed the 104 trainer. Father in law lived at Landers Ca, outside of Yukka Valley. Simple gps and map fix, and we were there. Dad was a private pilot for 48 years. Went to every airshow imaginable, including Paris. Met Chuck on several occasions. Ironically, he passed away on Dec 7, Pearl Harbor Day. My birthday. I have a hand carved high detail Normandy Invasion P-51 with all the stores on the wings, signed by Chuck. letter from him, in his handwriting, for authenticity. He had signed the wing of the P-51. It was his second flight that day with the trainer. The first one before breakfast went great. Bad probs on the second of the day. RIP Chuck.
Kudos for making a scenic factual piece by J.P.Ferre Salam and Respect to Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager from Pakistan. Rest in Peace Sir Yeager.
I just cannot stop watching this, it's so cool. Also, as of typing this, I am currently flying an NF-104A in KSP while watching this video. Even got me a chase plane with it, though it's an F9F Panther rather than a T-33...
Thanks for putting this together. I still get chills and adrenaline shots watching and listening to the music. They played that soundtrack at my son's Eagle Scout Ceremony in '85. I was at USCG AIR DETACHMENT KODIAK when that still SECRET mission was flown . Some days later, we hosted a USAF pilot with his F-104 out of Elmendorf AFB at the NAS. We had never seen anything like it; razor thin wings, all engine. Just after he took off, he swung around, came in low overhead, hit the AFTERBURNER and climbed almost straight up and out of sight !
A wonderful tribute to an amazing pilot, fantastic work. Anyone who loves the history of flight should read his autobiography, just a very down to earth plain speaking guy with an unbelievable natural talent for flying anything and everything. He was truly made of the Right Stuff.
Amazing work! well done, the part where he couldn't get the nose down and someone said deploy the chute was pure gold, those guys really did have the right stuff
Col. Yeager he defiantly had the right stuff. A rare breed, I think he would have proud if he saw this. Great job and the event timings, in the move it made him look like a cowboy out for a joy ride, because he was Chuck, but I see now it was a official test flight. I know this took you sometime to put this together, and sir it was worth the wait. Love it. I salute you.
Amazing movie!! What a gripping edge-of-the-seat story. I'm not aware that the NF104A is fitted with RCS. Chuck Yeager and the rest of the test pilots and astronauts were certainly made of The Right Stuff!!
Back when I was around 12 or so, I was playing an air combat sim on my PC. Back then, I was getting into such games, but I was pretty bad at them. Before then, I was more into space combat games like X-wing vs TIE Fighter (and I still largely am), so I was more attuned to those kinds of controls and had a lot to unlearn and learn for air combat. At the time of this minor story, I was finally getting the hang of air combat, finally growing familiar with all of the controls - or at least those of this particular game - and finally starting to get the methods and tactics down. At this point, I started raising the difficulty of the game, which mainly consisted of "easier flying/targeting/etc.," unlimited ammo and fuel, invincibility, and the like. I had shed the invincibility, ammo, and fuel, so it was a matter of bringing it into more of the realm of realism (or what could be considered realistic for a game first released in 1999). I was playing one of the game's Vietnam War missions, and I was flying an F-4E. Don't ask me how this happened, but I ended up chasing a MiG-21 up to an altitude around 40,000 feet (again, don't ask). I managed to shoot the MiG down with my last Sparrow missile, but the instant the missile struck, I entered a stall and fell away. Unfortunately for me, I did not have getting out of a stall down yet, and after a series of mistakes, I ended up putting the Phantom into a flat spin. It was quite the terrifying experience for me (to reiterate, I was around 12, and I was a bit on the dumb side at that age), and nothing I could think of was getting me out of it (again, I was a dumb 12-year-old). As I fell below 10,000 feet, I heard the in-game incoming missile warning. I barely noticed the RWR, and it showed an incoming SAM. As it was still a game, I launched countermeasures, but my stall meant that I did not break the lock. I punched out of the Phantom at around 6,000 feet, and just before the Phantom would have hit the ground, the SAM struck and destroyed it. It may have been a computer game that made up all of my experience, up to and including the flat spin, but it made it pretty clear to me then that flying any plane but especially a high-speed fighter was no joke. It was quite the sobering experience, even if it was ultimately just a game. From that, I can only imagine what Chuck Yeager went through and what was going through his mind in the middle of it all. Mission reports, interviews, and re-creations can only impart so much, so there will always be some aspect(s) that very few others beyond Yeager and the rest of his kind could ever truly know, understand, or even imagine - and my little story could, at most, be described as a drop in the bucket when compared to the experiences of those like Yeager, and that is undoubtedly being grossly generous to my story. Still, this little film did a pretty damn good job of conveying a sense of thrill, excitement, and perhaps most importantly, the real clear and present dangers of high-speed flying, especially in experimental/training aircraft like the NF-104A. Kudos to all of the efforts that were put into this. Sure, there may have been a full movie of the same name, and it is a must-see for any aviation enthusiast, but there are production limits, particularly physical ones, to what can be captured on film. For this portrayal of this fateful mission of Yeager's, I would like to think that this little film brought even more pride to his legacy.
What a great, and informative vid! Ive loved 'the right stuff' literally forever...the soundtrack is just awesome, and the narration is brilliant. Your vid really really captured that, and educated me more! And then I burst into tears... December 20, 1971... the last flight of the NF104, is the day i was born.
DUDE....This was an amazing video and you have my gratitude! My all time favorite film as a kid and my inspiration for getting into Aviation (Navy). I have always been a history buff and loved the book and movie The Right Stuff! Thank you so much for making this was amazing to watch and the added music score from the film and composer Bill Conti...Well done Sir Bravo Zulu!
Fantastic work! You and your team captured a level of suspense and awe that I certainly wasn't expecting. Kudos, and thank you for all of the effort, hours, and coordination this must have taken to accomplish.
This was an absolutely beautiful tribute to Col. Yeager and the people involved in this project. Thank you SO much for bringing us this magnum opus. I'm surprised Col. Yeager made it safely to the ground - especially when considering the strain put on that parachute by his huge brass balls!!😂Seriously though, my sincere gratitude to you - this made my already good day even better! Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this tribute to this legendary flight, this incredible plane, to DCS and of course to Chuck ! Merci pour ton partage de ce chef d œuvre ! 🇫🇷 🤙
Wow!! I didn't know how this story ended, so you had me on the edge of my seat nearly yelling at the screen! I was like "get out of there, you're so much more important than the plane, noOOO!!!" 😆
Supremely Superb movie J.P. Nothing short of EPIC. A masterpiece of storytelling and visual aid(s) to help us understand the events on that day. Congratulations to you and all who participated. We know the amount of effort put into this is colossal. Stand Tall and Walk Proud! This is a great success for us all. The first 5 rounds are on me!
OK, on vient clairement de passer un step dans le videomaking sur DCS !!! Clairement au top de ce qui peut se faire sur DCS !! Incroyable ce que tu arrives à faire sur chacune de tes vidéos et en particulier celle ci. Merci pour cet incroyable moment. Merci de nous faire vivre ces incroyables histoires aéronautiques et la légende d'hommes et de femmes au courage hors du commun.
Pour une raison obscure, je ne découvre ta chaîne que maintenant, avec ce film qui sort des sentiers battus en prenant un angle historique (ce qui est déjà une très belle surprise). Comment appeler ça ? Une claque ? Un uppercut ? Qu'il s'agisse de la direction artistique qui est soignée, des plans de caméra sublimes ou du son (purée t'as dû y passer des semaines rien que pour ça), le résultat est immersif à souhait ! Une performance proprement splendide de ta part car DCS a beau être permissif, chaque détail parsemé durant ton film prouve que tu n'as pas choisi la facilité. Bravo et surtout merci pour cet hommage à une facette de l'Aéronautique trop peu mise en avant. Fly safe !
*This film has been made using in-game footage from DCS WORLD by Eagle Dynamics.
Original soundtrack, sound and visual effects have been added for historical accuracy and dramatic purposes.*
© 2022 - J.P. FERRE - Do not redistribute this video.
Hello everyone! DCS: THE RIGHT STUFF (12 minutes) took me 2 years and 210 shots to complete, and is made in memory of the great Chuck Yeager. It's also dedicated to the entire DCS World community.
As The Right Stuff original feature film from 1983 is one of my favorite movie of all time, I always wanted to know what really happened to Yeager during his zoom climb attempt with the NF-104A 56-762 on December 10, 1963... 59 years ago today!!!
As an editor/director IRL, and with the powerful graphics and camera tools from DCS World, I saw a great opportunity to deliver a story that could make you, the audience, understand a little bit better what was the feeling of being a test pilot during the 60s. With quite a lot of historical research, and with the precious help from the VSN team, we managed to deliver a nice NF-104A Mod with accurate skins for DCS :)
Again, I can't thank you enough for your precious support , it means a lot to me.
Special thanks go to the mighty VSN team and all my cast and crew. And with the icing on the cake, the movie is narrated by the great Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello from The Fighter Pilot Podcast.
Have a good time, guys. Hope you'll enjoy. Fly safe, fly Metal. Cheers from France ++
00:00:00 : Prologue
00:01:00 : The NF-104A
00:01:55 : Taxi
00:02:38 : Take-Off
00:03:20 : In-Flight
00:04:11 : Mach 1
00:04:49 : Mach 2
00:05:17 : Zoom Climb Part.1
00:06:22 : Zoom Climb Part.2
00:07:20 : Reentry
00:08:09 : Flat Spin
00:09:09 : Drag Chute & Ejection
00:10:18 : Epilogue
00:11:30 : Credits
Directed & Edited by J.P. FERRE
Narrated by VINCENT "Jell-O" AIELLO from The Fighter Pilot Podcast - www.fighterpilotpodcast.com
Chuck Yeager: JAMES "Firehouse" TAYLOR
Ground Control: JOSEPH "Buccaneer" GIESE
Bud Anderson: TIMOTHY "Emerald" FRERKING
Edwards ATC: RAPTOR DAD GAMING - www.youtube.com/@RaptorDad
Music composed by ALEXIS MAINGAUD - www.alexismaingaud.com/
"The Right Stuff" original theme by BILL CONTI
Color Grading by EDOUARD POTIER
Visual Effects by J.P. FERRE - IIW STUDIO
Sound Mix by LIONEL GUENOUN - VEGA PROD
NF-104A Mod provided by VSN
NF-104A liveries created by JOCKO417
Special thanks to CDPKOBRA, PEEJOTT17 and RAZO+R
VSN Discord "Century Series": discord.gg/DW5fpPRXac
VSN Discord "Flyable Mods": discord.gg/WTne76umfn
DCS World by Eagle Dynamics: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/
LUX Studio: luxstudio.fr
IIW STUDIO: www.iiwstudio.fr
VEGA PROD: www.vega-prod.com
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Visit: www.jp-ferre.com
2 years for 12 minutes.. imagine how long you'd need to make a Top Gun-level full film!
@@verticalflyingb737 Well, 2 years working for this project only on my free time available, that explains a lot ;) Enjoy! ++
@@JPFerre Very nice video super!! Italy flown the starfighter up to 2004, hope to see it as a official module in DCS one day..... Cheers
Can we download the mod? The NF104? With the RCS and rocket and everything?
Nice 3-D simulation using DCS but isn't the transonic region before Mach 1?, why does he say "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region" after passing Mach 1 as shown by the Mach meter?. I guess that you could have shown the Mach meter passing mach 1 AFTER Chuck said "I am using the rocket to pass the transonic region". Correct me if I am wrong about the transonic region.
Outstanding!
Thank you Matt and everyone at Eagle Dynamics :)
No way its wags from eagle dynamics
@@Forza55_ In this NF-104A video, we'll touch on what it was like to fly with big giant American balls.
Would you guys allow this to be a module?
Good Job Jp ! Vidéo bien cool 👍
I had the great good fortune to be stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in 1966 and 67, and I actually had an opportunity to get up close and personal to the nf-104. While I was walking to my shop one morning, it was just sitting there between the hangers and I had to walk right past it. Of course I had to stop and look at it, and do a walk-around. I always thought that the f-104 was one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built, but this thing was so impressive with its reaction nozzles on the wings and in the nose, and the rocket installed above the exhaust pipe was just incredible. Your video was one of the best recreations of how the nf-104 operated. Thank you very much, for bringing back that memory.
I was astonished when told by a flight line engineer attached to the NF-104 project that the flat spin was actually part of the planned, normal mission profile. The idea was to take the aircraft up to max altitude and speed on the engine until it flamed out and then ignite the rocket engine and climb until the fuel exhausted. The reaction control jets were never intended to do more than minor adjustments to pitch, roll and yaw at max altitude. I believe that they only put out about 100-200 newtons of force. By comparison, punching someone as hard and fast as you can with your bare hand creates several thousand newtons. After rocket fuel was exhausted, the pilot was expected to take the NF-104A into a flat spin and attempt to relight the jet engine once the altitude was down to around 30,000 feet or so. That left basically seconds of safety margin if the engine did not relight, and the normal F-104s J-79 engines were known to have engine relight “challenges”. F-104s tend to fall like a rock when thrust is lost. It does not really glide. Thrust keeps it aloft. It takes the steady hand of an expert pilot to keep them in the air. The same engineer told me that the first time they tried this, they found that the tail feathers of the engine and the aft fuselage had been crushed like a beer can into a cone shape. The NF-104A must have almost looked like it had two nose cones. One in the front, one under the tail. Support structures had to be reworked to prevent it from happening again. Three NF-104As were created. One crashed, one had an engine explosion but still landed safely. No one dared to take the third up much more after that, because of all rather obvious the “holes” in the flight performance envelope. Extremely dangerous in all respects, even for a planned, normal mission, but it was the best semi-out-of-the-box tech solution we had at the time to explore high altitude aircraft performance until other dedicated aircraft could be designed and created.
It’s honestly astonishing that General Yeager lived as long as he did. He served in so much combat, in so many different frames, tested so many different dangerous experimentals, and pulled so many stunts that he truly was a statistical anomaly of the most extreme variety.
truly a man's man
Fantastisch 🤗👍👍👍👍
...oh, and the first to bust the sound barrier.
@@snoproblem Exactly
He addressed this a few times in interviews saying he was both "lucky" and very focused on what the plane was telling him, especially given his background as an aviation mechanic.
This, this is how you make a film. It captures everything: the speed, the anxiety, the adrenaline, the thrill.
Incredible.
The cows hearing the sonic boom makes this stand out and kudos for the accuracy. I totally enjoyed this and in fact I'm going to watch it again. Right now.
Thank you J.P. For creating this beautiful tribute to Chuck Yeager and all the test pilots who flew in those early days of space flight. You've given us both the look and feel of a small piece of not only American History but global history, without those amazingly skilled pilots back then space flight we know today would not be possible. Thank you also for showing us not only with this but all your DCS Movies what truly can be done in DCS World if we give it our passion and support. I can't wait to see your next video production you are an amazing independent producer/director who makes content that inspires and fulfils the dreams of virtual pilots everywhere.
Thank you very very much :)
What an amazing film. This needs an award.
Still can't get enough of the scene with the sonic boom 😍
If I got a nickel for everything a film with the name “the right stuff” got an award I’ve had 2 nickels. Which isn’t weird, it’s just weird that it Happened twice.
Certainly spooked those cattle.
Chuck, you blue suit badass, you, rest in peace. You make me proud to have worn that blue suit.
Great clip, Keep it up J.P!!
This was and is utterly brilliant - real life is infinitely more thrilling than any movie.
I was delighted to hear the opening bars of Debussy's 'Claire de Lune' at 6:29 when the moon comes into view - a very stylish touch indeed !
This short film is a masterpiece, and JP is to be congratulated on such stunningly fine work.
Hi and thank YOU! I'm so happy you spotted these first notes, that was the intention!!! Cheers +++
You need to watch the RIGHT STUFF.
@@mikedineen7857 Oh but I have, when age 8 ! Clair De Lune is forever wedded to the image of an NF-104 streaking spacewards to this very day for me...
A great watch TY for making this - anything aviation is so much more authentic when voiced by the familiar tones of Jello
“Hey, Ridley: You got any Beemans?”
There's a reason why The Right Stuff won an Oscar for best original score.
Chuck Yeager was a hero and an idol for so many people. Thank you for this tribute.
You forgot that American bulls#it "Thank you for your service"
@@TheSithTeacher People like you make me sick. What‘s wrong with you?
Tom Wolff spent 20 years researching for the book. In the book he writes that chunks of burning fuel from the ejection seat entered the helmet.
The F-104 is one of the prettiest jets. Especially when flying without the payload.
Great game footage. The Right Stuff, one of my favorites aviation movie of all time. Big thank you from France
Merci à toi ! :)
The cows were a great touch!
Brilliant mate, absolutely brilliant!!😲
That's an absolute masterpiece of a short film and one hell of a story. Incredible work, you should be proud of this!
Dude. That was incredible!!!
I did not realise that the NF-104 had Reaction Control Systems installed like that! Thank you for a gripping short story. I remember watching the scene in "The Right Stuff", and you could have easily inserted this sequence in there to markedly improve the original movie. Well done. Well done indeed.
I never knew it had the 6,000 lb/st rocket motor for upper stratosphere assist. Definitely didn't know about the forward RCS. Was it the same system used on Gemini capsules?
@@SloaneLasers
Similar but not the same.
To my knowledge,
The NF-104 had 13 rockets-
1 for thrust,
the rest for RCS.
The Gemini?
“Two separate systems were required:
the orbit attitude and maneuvering system (OAMS) and the reaction or reentry control system (RCS).
The OAMS,
located in the adapter section, had four functions:
(1) providing the thrust required to enable the spacecraft to rendezvous with the target vehicle; (2) controlling the attitude of the spacecraft in orbit;
(3) separating the spacecraft from the second stage of the launch vehicle and inserting it in orbit; and (4) providing abort capability at altitudes between 300,000 feet and orbital insertion.
The OAMS initially comprised 16 ablative thrust chambers;
eight 25-pound thrusters to control the spacecraft attitude in pitch, yaw, and roll axes; and eight 100-pound thrusters to maneuvre the spacecraft axially, vertically, and laterally.
Rather than providing a redundant system, only critical components were to be duplicated.
The RCS was located forward of the crew compartment in an independent RCS module.
It consisted of two completely independent systems, each containing eight 25-pound thrusters very similar to those used in the OAMS.
The purpose of the RCS was to maintain the attitude of the spacecraft during the reentry phase of the mission.”
-the astronautix website
AKA
Encyclopedia Astronautica
@@j.griffin Thank you! Holy crap, 12 separate thrusters. I could really only see a couple in the video near the cockpit. That's amazing.
@@SloaneLasers
You really need to (!) see the film "The Right Stuff".
This sequence is right out of that (fantastic) film.
The way this scene was portrayed in the movie was that Yeager was taking an unplanned flight, but the controllers just "let him do it, because he's Yeager." I like this version better.
Well done, that was excellent.
You truly captured the legacy of the movie and honoured Philip Kaufman with this amazing work! I was just a little kid when I went with my father to watch “The right stuff” at the theatre. I remained thrilled by the movie and then I decided to become an aerospace engineer due to that movie. All my life has been influenced by that experience. Actually watching this movie again and again reconnects me now with the loving memory of my father and the man I am now. When the first notes of the Yaeger theme started I had chills. Thank you for this superb work.
Rode dirt bikes out to where chuck had crashed the 104 trainer. Father in law lived at Landers Ca, outside of Yukka Valley. Simple gps and map fix, and we were there. Dad was a private pilot for 48 years. Went to every airshow imaginable, including Paris. Met Chuck on several occasions. Ironically, he passed away on Dec 7, Pearl Harbor Day. My birthday. I have a hand carved high detail Normandy Invasion P-51 with all the stores on the wings, signed by Chuck. letter from him, in his handwriting, for authenticity. He had signed the wing of the P-51. It was his second flight that day with the trainer. The first one before breakfast went great. Bad probs on the second of the day. RIP Chuck.
Kudos for making a scenic factual piece by J.P.Ferre
Salam and Respect to Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager from Pakistan.
Rest in Peace Sir Yeager.
How this video does not have millions upon millions of views is beyond me. excellent work
DCS has really attracted the finest and most talented videographers! What a stunning work, JP!
This scene in the movie was so dramatic......it depicted flight in all its majesty...
Спасибо за фильм.❤❤❤ Чак легенда.
This is beautiful - beauty in complexity and detail. It’s what makes pushing the limits so incredible.
I just cannot stop watching this, it's so cool.
Also, as of typing this, I am currently flying an NF-104A in KSP while watching this video. Even got me a chase plane with it, though it's an F9F Panther rather than a T-33...
Thanks for putting this together.
I still get chills and adrenaline shots watching and listening to the music. They played that soundtrack at my son's Eagle Scout Ceremony in '85.
I was at USCG AIR DETACHMENT KODIAK when that still SECRET mission was flown .
Some days later, we hosted a USAF pilot with his F-104 out of Elmendorf AFB at the NAS. We had never seen anything like it; razor thin wings, all engine.
Just after he took off, he swung around, came in low overhead, hit the AFTERBURNER and climbed almost straight up and out of sight !
Fantastic! Thank you very much!
2- words,"OUTSTANDING"... "Thanks" for sharing this with us, makes me want to build a model of an F-104 now.
Wow, this had me gripping the edge of my seat!
This is the first time I ever felt emotional while watching a DCS cinematic.
Thanks for creating this master piece!
Absolutely gorgeous and stunning film!!!!
This is hands down the best short film created in DCS. Wow! Congratulations man! Very very well done!
One of your best videos yet absolutely incredible
Wow! Great video! Chuck Yeager was an earlier version of Superman!
The attention to detail you've put into this movie is beyond what anyone would ever expect, outstanding work!
Masterwork. Thank you J.P.
This gave me chills, so realistic!!! Incredible. Thank you so much for all the great work!!!
What a remaquable work, a realization worthy of this great film "the right stuff" Bravo and bravo again ... 👋👋👋👋
A wonderful tribute to an amazing pilot, fantastic work. Anyone who loves the history of flight should read his autobiography, just a very down to earth plain speaking guy with an unbelievable natural talent for flying anything and everything. He was truly made of the Right Stuff.
Well done! That was outstanding.
I loved the movie since childhood - love this movie! Great work!
me at the beginning: "ok let's try this funny amateur thing"
me at the end: sweating grabbing my armchair: "Eject chuck EJECT!!!"
We need more short film like that ! Great work to everyone involved!
Bravo, J.P (i'm standing and clapping)....bravo
Amazing work! well done, the part where he couldn't get the nose down and someone said deploy the chute was pure gold, those guys really did have the right stuff
First rate work. Quality. Bravo.
I absolutely love the cinematography and how you mixed the original sounds from the movie with yours. Perfect, 10/10.
This was excellent, Thank you
I love the First Man inspirations in shots and dialogue. Truly puts gravity to the event and the scenes with the thrusters are heavenly! Amazing work!
Ever seen the movie The Right Stuff? The Right Stuff preceded First Man by 35 years. This video is a remake of the final scene in The Right Stuff.
Nice work! Fitting tribute to the General and the 104.
The cows in the field were a nice touch...
Col. Yeager he defiantly had the right stuff. A rare breed, I think he would have proud if he saw this. Great job and the event timings, in the move it made him look like a cowboy out for a joy ride, because he was Chuck, but I see now it was a official test flight. I know this took you sometime to put this together, and sir it was worth the wait. Love it. I salute you.
Amazing movie!! What a gripping edge-of-the-seat story. I'm not aware that the NF104A is fitted with RCS. Chuck Yeager and the rest of the test pilots and astronauts were certainly made of The Right Stuff!!
This film, although short, deserves all the respect it gets
Back when I was around 12 or so, I was playing an air combat sim on my PC. Back then, I was getting into such games, but I was pretty bad at them. Before then, I was more into space combat games like X-wing vs TIE Fighter (and I still largely am), so I was more attuned to those kinds of controls and had a lot to unlearn and learn for air combat. At the time of this minor story, I was finally getting the hang of air combat, finally growing familiar with all of the controls - or at least those of this particular game - and finally starting to get the methods and tactics down. At this point, I started raising the difficulty of the game, which mainly consisted of "easier flying/targeting/etc.," unlimited ammo and fuel, invincibility, and the like. I had shed the invincibility, ammo, and fuel, so it was a matter of bringing it into more of the realm of realism (or what could be considered realistic for a game first released in 1999).
I was playing one of the game's Vietnam War missions, and I was flying an F-4E. Don't ask me how this happened, but I ended up chasing a MiG-21 up to an altitude around 40,000 feet (again, don't ask). I managed to shoot the MiG down with my last Sparrow missile, but the instant the missile struck, I entered a stall and fell away. Unfortunately for me, I did not have getting out of a stall down yet, and after a series of mistakes, I ended up putting the Phantom into a flat spin. It was quite the terrifying experience for me (to reiterate, I was around 12, and I was a bit on the dumb side at that age), and nothing I could think of was getting me out of it (again, I was a dumb 12-year-old).
As I fell below 10,000 feet, I heard the in-game incoming missile warning. I barely noticed the RWR, and it showed an incoming SAM. As it was still a game, I launched countermeasures, but my stall meant that I did not break the lock.
I punched out of the Phantom at around 6,000 feet, and just before the Phantom would have hit the ground, the SAM struck and destroyed it.
It may have been a computer game that made up all of my experience, up to and including the flat spin, but it made it pretty clear to me then that flying any plane but especially a high-speed fighter was no joke. It was quite the sobering experience, even if it was ultimately just a game.
From that, I can only imagine what Chuck Yeager went through and what was going through his mind in the middle of it all. Mission reports, interviews, and re-creations can only impart so much, so there will always be some aspect(s) that very few others beyond Yeager and the rest of his kind could ever truly know, understand, or even imagine - and my little story could, at most, be described as a drop in the bucket when compared to the experiences of those like Yeager, and that is undoubtedly being grossly generous to my story.
Still, this little film did a pretty damn good job of conveying a sense of thrill, excitement, and perhaps most importantly, the real clear and present dangers of high-speed flying, especially in experimental/training aircraft like the NF-104A. Kudos to all of the efforts that were put into this. Sure, there may have been a full movie of the same name, and it is a must-see for any aviation enthusiast, but there are production limits, particularly physical ones, to what can be captured on film. For this portrayal of this fateful mission of Yeager's, I would like to think that this little film brought even more pride to his legacy.
Awesome flim as always, great job mate))
Thanks for this Pilots and your Video.
Wow...a worthy homage to Chuck Yeager. Very well done.
I owned the 2 part VHS as a kid, and I probably watched it with my dad at least 5 times. Great movie, and great job with your DCS short film!
What a great, and informative vid! Ive loved 'the right stuff' literally forever...the soundtrack is just awesome, and the narration is brilliant. Your vid really really captured that, and educated me more! And then I burst into tears... December 20, 1971... the last flight of the NF104, is the day i was born.
This was incredible! EXCELLENT work!!!!! Wow.
Well done. I thought that sounded like Vincent doing the narration. I had no idea about this. The F104 will always be a beautiful plane. Thanks!
LOVED this!! Thank you!! Now I gotta re-re-re- watch the movie. Awesome Sunday afternoon watch.
Really great production, using DCS. Good job you guys!
DUDE....This was an amazing video and you have my gratitude! My all time favorite film as a kid and my inspiration for getting into Aviation (Navy). I have always been a history buff and loved the book and movie The Right Stuff! Thank you so much for making this was amazing to watch and the added music score from the film and composer Bill Conti...Well done Sir Bravo Zulu!
I don´t even want to imagine how much time was spent making this masterpiece. That´s crazy. Well done!
Folks, that is the best depiction/summary of this event, that I've ever seen. Truly outstanding! Beautiful work! Many thanks.
Fantastic work! You and your team captured a level of suspense and awe that I certainly wasn't expecting. Kudos, and thank you for all of the effort, hours, and coordination this must have taken to accomplish.
Amazing work. Thank you!!
Both my Uncles were F-104 Instructors. Brave Pilots indeed.
Impossible not to watch the film (not a video but a film) until the end!
Fantastic. And instructive which is rare!
This was an absolutely beautiful tribute to Col. Yeager and the people involved in this project. Thank you SO much for bringing us this magnum opus. I'm surprised Col. Yeager made it safely to the ground - especially when considering the strain put on that parachute by his huge brass balls!!😂Seriously though, my sincere gratitude to you - this made my already good day even better! Thanks!
Thank you very much :)
C'est incroyable ce que ta pondu :) Excellent !
Truely astonishing!! You have my biggest respect for the amount of work that has been put in this masterpiece! This is some high class movie scripting
Excellent video!!! 👍👌
Thanks a lot for this tribute to this legendary flight, this incredible plane, to DCS and of course to Chuck ! Merci pour ton partage de ce chef d œuvre ! 🇫🇷 🤙
AMAZING....best 'classical' historical sort movie ever. I am waiting for other short movie.
Wow!! I didn't know how this story ended, so you had me on the edge of my seat nearly yelling at the screen! I was like "get out of there, you're so much more important than the plane, noOOO!!!" 😆
Wow did i enjoy this movie. Outstanding!
Doesn't get much better than this! Great job!
Wow... Beautiful job on moment in history.
Supremely Superb movie J.P. Nothing short of EPIC. A masterpiece of storytelling and visual aid(s) to help us understand the events on that day. Congratulations to you and all who participated. We know the amount of effort put into this is colossal. Stand Tall and Walk Proud! This is a great success for us all. The first 5 rounds are on me!
Great Stuff!!!!!
Wow! That was really well done JP!!!
Thanks DG! :)
This was the best DCS short film i've ever watched! Thank you for this art
Really enjoyed that. Well done mate.
OK, on vient clairement de passer un step dans le videomaking sur DCS !!! Clairement au top de ce qui peut se faire sur DCS !!
Incroyable ce que tu arrives à faire sur chacune de tes vidéos et en particulier celle ci. Merci pour cet incroyable moment. Merci de nous faire vivre ces incroyables histoires aéronautiques et la légende d'hommes et de femmes au courage hors du commun.
Ps: j'ai souvent utilisé les mêmes termes mais c'est ta vidéo qui m'a fait perdre mon français 😅
what an awesome video! Thanks man
This was a true "Starfighter"! never knew it was equipped with manoeuvring nozzles in the wings and the nose!
I love these Starfighters! Great short!
Pour une raison obscure, je ne découvre ta chaîne que maintenant, avec ce film qui sort des sentiers battus en prenant un angle historique (ce qui est déjà une très belle surprise).
Comment appeler ça ? Une claque ? Un uppercut ?
Qu'il s'agisse de la direction artistique qui est soignée, des plans de caméra sublimes ou du son (purée t'as dû y passer des semaines rien que pour ça), le résultat est immersif à souhait ! Une performance proprement splendide de ta part car DCS a beau être permissif, chaque détail parsemé durant ton film prouve que tu n'as pas choisi la facilité.
Bravo et surtout merci pour cet hommage à une facette de l'Aéronautique trop peu mise en avant.
Fly safe !
dude that was amazing! i was actually on the edge of my seat!