It seemed appropriate that another version of Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, has been released, this time for the small screen. It came out just as we lost the origin of the term ‘the right stuff’, who was Chuck Yeager, who died last week. Yeager was the American test pilot who broke the sound barrier in 1947 flying in an X-1. According to his New York Times (NYT) obituary, Chuck Yeager, was “the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff””.