The Flight of the Phoenix
by Elleston Trevor · first published 1964
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Thank you sooo much for recommending Flight of the Phoenix. I just watched it last night, and it's one of my new all time favorites.
on “Engineers as Heroes” ↗This reminds me of the fictional story The Flight of the Phoenix, a 1964 novel turned into a 1965 film. The plot is that a group of men crash their Fairchild C-82 aircraft in the Libyan desert and build a make-shift aircraft out of its pieces to fly to rescue. [1]…
on “Surviving the desert by building a motorcycle from a broken car? (2017)” ↗