Douglas Corrigan
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Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator, nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight in July from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he then flew from Floyd Bennett Field in
Corrigan in 1938
Friday, August 5, 1938 New York Post, mirrored banner headline
Corrigan's plane arriving in New York via ship
Retailer sample of Corrigan's autobiography That's My Story consisting of only the first chapter and all the illustrations followed by blank pages. The sales blurb pasted to the front cover explains it all.
The Flying Irishman
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The Flying Irishman is a 1939 biographical drama film produced by RKO Pictures about Douglas Corrigan's unofficial transatlantic flight the previous year in a dilapidated Curtiss Robin light aircraft.
Douglas Corrigan
…products including a wristwatch that ran counter-clockwise. The following year (1939), he portrayed himself in RKO Radio Pictures' movie biography The Flying Irishman. The $75,000 (equal to $1,736,000 today) he earned from that movie role was the equivalent of 30 years' income at his airfield jobs. Although he did…
Poster of the movie "The Flying Irishman"
Douglas Corrigan as himself in the lead role.