I was going through USN flight training when the book came out and was shocked at the death rate in 1950s US military flight training.@Huntn mentioned The Right Stuff in a post over in "The Aircraft Thread!" and I hadn't watched that film in quite a long time, so I've been enjoying that tonight. It's a long movie but that never crosses my mind when I'm viewing it... only when I'm deciding if I can stay up late enough to the end or should start watching it earlier on another evening.