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The details on "Wrongway" Corrigan...
The details on "Wrongway" Corrigan...
Item # 569909
July 19, 1938
THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1938
* Douglas "Wrong way" Corrigan
* Famous Atlantic Ocean airplane flight
Near the top of the front page is a one column report headed: "Corrigan Tells Eire's Premier About Flight" "Eamon De Valera Astonished on Hearing 'Mistake' Pilot's Amazing Story" "Will Not Fly Home" "Wants to Shop, Visit Graves of Grandparents, Tour Country".
This article is about Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan. As Wikipedia notes, after a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew from 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.
Complete in 16 pages, very nice condition, very small hole near the spine affecting a few words in unrelated articles, otherwise nice condition.
Category: The 20th Century
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