1938 headline newspaper DOUGLAS CORRIGAN flys “Wrong Way” to IRELAND – he claims it was by mistake !
– inv # 4G-217
SEE PHOTO—– COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Baltimore News
(MD) dated July 19, 1938.
This newspaper contains a bold banner headline, photo, and report of
Douglas “WRONG WAY” Corrigan flying from the US to Ireland by “mistake” !!
Nice display newspaper on this famous historic event in early aviation history !!
Douglas Corrigan (January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an
American
aviator
born in
Galveston
,
Texas
. He was nicknamed
“Wrong Way”
in 1938. After a transcontinental flight from
Long Beach, California
, to
New York
, he flew from
Floyd Bennett Field
in
Brooklyn, New York
, to
Ireland
, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He claimed his unauthorized flight was due to a
navigational
error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his
compass
. However, he was a skilled
aircraft
mechanic
(he was one of the builders of
Charles Lindbergh
‘s
Spirit of St. Louis
) and had made several modifications to his own plane, preparing it for his
transatlantic flight
. He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland, and his “navigational error” was seen as deliberate. Nevertheless, he never publicly admitted to having flown to Ireland intentionally.
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