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
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains of America Awards. It had its theatrical premiere on October 22 in New York. The film appeared on some critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Shawn Levy of "The Oregonian" named it the 5th best film of 2008, and Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" named it the 8th best film of 2008 (in a six-way tie). Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains is a 2007 documentary film which tells the story of a rugby team from Uruguay who