John Stringfellow flight achievement was referenced in the movie "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965). The character Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Kruger), a German airplane designer, explains that it was a model airplane that made the first powered flight in 1848 and that though his own experience with airplane design is with building models, the principles are the same. His design for an airplane to be built from the scraps of their crashed plane will fly them out of the desert to safety. John Stringfellow John Stringfellow (1799 – 13 December 1883) was born in Sheffield, England and is known for his work
ROH Survival of the Fittest Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup, as ROH was to continue the Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup following the shutdown of MCW in 2003. However, following a controversy with ROH's owner in early 2004, MCW dropped their association with Ring of Honor, and ROH renamed the already scheduled tournament "Survival of the Fittest". ROH's first Survival of the Fittest tournament took place on June 24, 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ROH's second Survival of the Fittest tournament took place on September 24, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. ROH's third Survival of the Fittest tournament took place on October 6, 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio. ROH's fourth