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
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert early 1990's, the international publishing team was reorganized and enlarged. The reorganization involved support from the Israel Antiquities Authority.During the peak of the publication project, in the 1990's, the international team consisted of ninety-eight scholars. In the ten years leading up to 2001 Dr. Tov and his team issued 28 volumes. Tov resigned as editor-in-chief in 2009. Marcus reviewed "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert", Vol. I: Qumran Cave I. He complimented the authors on their great effort and their contribution to the knowledge of the Qumran findings. On the other hand he pointed out a few inconsistencies in the translation