On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan departed Brooklyn bound for Los Angeles and landed in Dublin, Ireland - the wrong-way Atlantic crossing nobody could prove was intentional.
TaildraggerOn July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew 28 hours and 13 minutes from Brooklyn to Dublin - officially claiming he meant to go to Los Angeles the whole time.
TaildraggerOn July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin after filing a flight plan for Los Angeles - then blamed a faulty compass for the detour.
TaildraggerIn July 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin in a leaking, fuel-soaked Curtiss Robin - then claimed he misread his compass.
TaildraggerOn July 18, 1938, Douglas Corrigan landed in Ireland claiming he'd followed the wrong end of his compass - a story no one believed and everyone loved.
TaildraggerHow Douglas Corrigan spent 11 years chasing government approval to fly the Atlantic, then crossed it anyway on July 17, 1938 - and spent the rest of his life denying it.
TaildraggerIn July 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin in a plane denied transatlantic clearance and spent 57 years insisting it was an accident.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and called it a navigation error.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin across the Atlantic in 1938 and blamed a backwards compass.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and blamed a compass.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938 and blamed his compass.
TaildraggerDouglas Corrigan 'accidentally' flew from New York to Ireland in 1938 after being denied permission three times.
TaildraggerDouglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew from New York to Dublin in 1938, claiming he meant to go to California - and never admitted otherwise.
TaildraggerDouglas Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938, claiming it was a navigational error nobody believed.
TaildraggerDouglas Corrigan flew a beat-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938, claiming he read his compass wrong.
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