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2 unusual facts about The Flight of the Phoenix


Frank Tallman

Mantz was killed in 1965 while flying a cobbled-together aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, designed with the assistance of Otto Timm, representing the fictional type built by oil explorers of pieces of their crashed Fairchild C-82 Packet downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix.

John Stringfellow

Stringfellow's first powered flight achievement was referenced in the movie The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).


Barrie Chase

She played Farida in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix (starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough), in a dream sequence.

Coffman engine starter

The starter became famous as a plot device in the 1965 movie The Flight of the Phoenix, in which pilot Frank Towns (James Stewart) has a limited number of cartridges with which to start the makeshift aircraft's engine.

Fairchild C-82 Packet

The Skytruck brand-name was allegedly the inspiration for Elleston Trevor's Skytruck in the 1964 novel, The Flight of the Phoenix.


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