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
Airlines of New South Wales South Wales, and was the city airport terminal's first tenant. Airlines of New South Wales aircraft had two reportable accidents. On 12 December 1960, a Douglas DC-3 crashed at sea during a pilot training flight, with the loss of three lives. On 1 April 1965, a Douglas C-47 on a scheduled passenger flight crashed. The plane was written off, but there were no fatalities. There was also an incident in 1986 involving an F27. Passengers on a Sydney-bound flight from Dubbo were prepared for an emergency landing as Dubbo staff had found a nose wheel component on the runway. Passengers