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
After the Fox After the Fox After the Fox () is a 1966 British–Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland. The screenplay is in English, by Neil Simon and De Sica's longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini. Despite its notable credits, the film was poorly received when it was released. It has gained a cult following for its numerous in-jokes skewering pompous directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and De Sica; movie stars; their starstruck audiences; and pretentious film critics. The film was remade in 2010 in Hindi as "Tees Maar Khan".