I remember seeing "Breaking the Sound Barrier" on TV when I was in grade school in the early 60s. I remember thinking "wow" these are really cool planes. Then all of a sudden it hit me, wait a minute - Chuck Yeager, an American, broke the sound barrier not this guy. It pretty much ruined the movie for me after that. Even today whenever I hear about the movie I think to myself, this is the "wrong stuff." I then dig out my well viewed copy of the real thing (more or less), "The Right Stuff." Even as a 12 year old I knew the silliness of reversing the elevator to go supersonic. I was an avid model builder and budding aviation historian. I had never read anything about something like that. Come on try to be at least a little historically and technologically accurate. I find it had to beat the flight scene in the Right Stuff when Chuck Yeager broke through the sound barrier and the other scene when he is taking the F-104 past 100,000 feet. Now those are truly cool.
Review of The Sound Barrier
