The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff (1983)

2 mistakes since 24 Jul '19, 00:00

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Factual error: When Alan Shepard is landing on the carrier, he is flying an A-4M. Not only did that variant not make its first flight until 1970, but it was also almost exclusively (with a few minor Navy roles) a Marine Corps aircraft. The A-4M is very easy to distinguish from earlier variants, most notable are the JFS (jet fuel starter) exhaust port for the JFS100-34 self-starter on the starboard side of the aircraft at mid-fuselage and the drag chute canister at the rear below the tailpipe.

Factual error: When Yeager and X1 break the sound barrier, the sound is wrong at Pancho's bar. Scene starts with a loud roar, then 2 sound barrier bangs, then quiet. Real sound barrier noise is the reverse - near silent up to the 2 sound barrier bangs, then the exhaust roar.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots.

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Trivia: An obvious reference to the news media being an annoying swarm by the sounds of swarming locusts in the background whenever the media shows up.

William Bergquist

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