Movie: The Right Stuff
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“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” K. Schwab
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I agree, it is a great movie. For some reason the original link I posted wouldn't open. I have posted a link that should work in my original post.
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“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” K. Schwab
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Not only a great movie, but the book is outstanding. Tom Wolfe's writing was far-ranging and generally brilliant. The beginning of the book has stuff they really couldn't film & show to audiences. If you are into aviation or war history, you have to read "Yeager" - what a great story about a GREAT man & his incredible career. THEN watch this movie. RIP Mr. Yeager. Another really great book is about the life of Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle was not only a genius, but he was truly one of the fathers of flight & aviation fuel development, as well as one of the pioneers of flight navigation. What an incredible man!
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General Chuck Yeager had a cameo part in the movie The Right Stuff. He played Fred the Bartender. His line was: ”Hey, y’all want to drink whiskey?” Go to 52:58 in the video to see him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnA8FvaAnI
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My favorite movie. Frequently quoted in certain company...
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Thought provoking book, entertaining movie that sold a lot of tickets.
This post made me realize that the selection of humans to put into space “maybe” was first to go “Woke”.
Maybe, because the peacetime USA selection of Generals versus wartime selection of Generals showed similar problems even before 1862 What a crock of male bovine feces. Those guys were real men. You didn't see any of them playing girly dress-up.
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as a machinist, i'm always interested in equipment like that. thanks for the description of that machine. when i first started my career, the company was Rockwell International. there was an in-floor Bullard vertical mill with a 5 foot table we used to machine 6 foot long gas meter bodies used in the field pipe lines. these bodies were stood on end, one end machined, then inverted to machine the other. after a few years, that machine was retired, and an above ground Bullard vertical mill was used until around 1978 or so, when that operation was switched over to the first of the large CNC machines were bought to machine large castings.
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Click here to see the trailer to the Aussie movie 'The Dish' staring Sam Neil, a light hearted comedy on how Australia sent the live moon landing broadcast around the World, an amazing story which nearly never happened due to Neil Armstrong deciding not to have a rest period before stepping onto the moon. The movie 'The 'Right 'Stuff' is partly filmed in Australia at the Honeysuckle radio telescope station. The Trailer' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHBmoM4pFASecond Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dyGpXcQl-g
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as a machinist, i'm always interested in equipment like that. thanks for the description of that machine. when i first started my career, the company was Rockwell International. there was an in-floor Bullard vertical mill with a 5 foot table we used to machine 6 foot long gas meter bodies used in the field pipe lines. these bodies were stood on end, one end machined, then inverted to machine the other. after a few years, that machine was retired, and an above ground Bullard vertical mill was used until around 1978 or so, when that operation was switched over to the first of the large CNC machines were bought to machine large castings. So you know the appeal of those big iron machines.. At the auction I was outbid on a nice above ground Bullard. To create the below floor sump pit, I was pretty worried about jack-hammering the concrete shop floor next to other lathes, drill dresses and horizontal milling machines. But it was suggested that since we had core drilling rigs of various sizes that we just bring in the smallest such rig and drill a circle of small diameter hole through the concrete steel rebar reinforced floor to create the below floor pit. This worked with almost no vibration and the grouting under the existing machines did not crack or show any damage. The tungsten carbide core drill bits bits cut through what rebar happened to be in the way and we lifted out the concrete circle of floor in one piece. 20 years later by myself I had to create a hole in the un-reinforced concrete floor of a house on slab to get at a leaking copper water line below. I used a half inch hammer drill to make a much smaller circle of holes through the concrete. The leak was caused where a copper city water line that touched a galvanized steel conduit with 240 volt wires inside. This created the shocking situation of seeing clear water squirting out of the elbow cover plate below the electric company meter!
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Grissom grew up in the county south of me. The State park there has a display and looped short film that people can watch.
Over the years, his impact has influenced at least two more astronauts (Bowersox is one) from that county that now has only about 40,000 people. My cousin’s husband went to school with one. How do you top a guy who attends a 25 year high school reunion, who brings photos from space?
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