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
A Stop in a Desert A Stop in a Desert A Stop in a Desert () is the second book of poems of Joseph Brodsky and the first composed by the poet himself. It is considered the result of the early works of the poet. Since 1965, Joseph Brodsky lived in Leningrad "(where he returned after the link)". At this time, only occasionally he managed to publish something of his poems in the Soviet press, his poems printed in emigrant magazines, and the first book of his poems published in 1965 in the United States, entitled "Poems and Poems". It was drawn up without the