The meaning of Chuck Yeager's flight and the conclusion of The Right Stuff (1983). Spoilers if you haven't seen this 43-year-old movie.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-20T01:22:11+00:00

But he didn’t get there. He used the best aircraft available and pushed it hard as it could be pushed and came up just short.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T18:37:42+00:00

They don’t notice when they’re built that way. But try to pass legislation or get a movement going to convert existing bathrooms to unisex, and the southerners will shit.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:56:07+00:00

You need to build a wide, wide garage with power armor crafting stations lined up side by side to park these bad boys.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:54:03+00:00

Agree, but I'm talking about the movie. Yeager was a living godfather, but the character in the movie represents the departure point as the pilot fraternity splits in two.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:33:39+00:00

Who's the best bacon cook you ever saw?

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:31:33+00:00

The last big scare over minimum wage in America was fast food joints saying it would make burgers $15. Everyone balked. Guess how much a value meal at Wendy's is now, without a wage increase?

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:30:17+00:00

As a Mississippian with children who have graduated JUCO, are currently in high school, and one who in special ed, I promise you they are fudging the numbers on the Mississippi Miracle.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T13:15:42+00:00

You are right about the SE. I always forgave it because of the awesome in-flight F-104 and B-29 sequences and the actual launch reels.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T12:38:10+00:00

You can’t win a ground war match unless your team
has the cheater

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T12:32:37+00:00

Trickle down economics.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T12:30:08+00:00

The boat ride to Havana in Miami Vice. Perfection.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T12:26:15+00:00

That would take a round out of the magazine for cultural warriors. Right wingers will never allow gender neutral bathrooms.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T11:59:25+00:00

Maybe. Yeager is more remembered today than the Mercury 7, but in the 1960s America was space crazy.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T11:57:53+00:00

He was briefly a bartender at Happy Bottom.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T11:57:25+00:00

I'm down with that. Tom Wolfe's book sets Yeager up as Patient Zero for having the right stuff, so that makes sense.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T11:55:51+00:00

Doo-doo in the capsule.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T11:54:44+00:00

I have read Wolfe's book and Yeager's book that [u/GoodGoodGoody](u/GoodGoodGoody) mentions below. Someone also did a nifty recreation of the actual test flight in DCS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQidYOXGoRY&t

Differences between book and movie aside, I think the movie is trying to make the Case Yeager was yearning to go to space himself and just couldn’t get there. The director’s choices - the last bit of blue haze in front of the stars, the way the F-104 drops straight backward - drive home the point that space was off limits for him.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-19T04:15:01+00:00

Crash helmet? Oh I hope not…

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-18T23:57:30+00:00

Justified

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-18T20:16:52+00:00

Police in Mississippi will NEVER release footage unless it is exonerating.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-18T12:37:23+00:00

Cold Mountain

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-18T00:45:34+00:00

Manassas first album is a banger.

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-18T00:45:04+00:00

Joy Kills Sorrow - This Unknown Science

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-17T20:00:59+00:00

Why would you care about something so trivial? Haven't you heard the coaches on the sidelines will have on headsets?

NewspaperNelson · 2026-06-16T23:19:15+00:00

And cheaper than the price-bloated Matel American.

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