| WRONG WAY DAY --- Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
WRONG WAY DAY
Corrigan.
Douglas Corrigan, unemployed airplane mechanic. It was on this, a
foggy day in 1938, that Doug left Floyd Bennett Field in New York,
supposedly headed for Los Angeles. He landed his 1929 Curtiss Robin
monoplane about 28 hours later - not in California but in Ireland at
Corrigan made the 3,150-mile flight without benefit of a radio or
navigational equipment other than a compass. His explanation for the
monumental mistake was that he was following the wrong end of the
compass needle. (Folks were never sure whether his feat was a mistake
or moxie.)
He was, however, welcomed home as a hero (ticker tape parade and all)
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