USAF recently released ground footage of Yeager on his ill-fated NF-104 flight, dramatized in “The Right Stuff.”

While grainy with film quality of the era...impressive as hell. The suddenness of the initial yaw angles is amazing.

You can see an anti-spin drag chute towards the end (to me, it looks like he recovered, but was too low for the dive pullout), and the ejection, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...rc4VrLSahdocUg