nagirroC yaW gnorW (Wrong Way Corrigan) On the foggy morning of July 17,1938, a 31-year-old pilot named Douglas Corrigan took off from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field on a solo, nonstop trip to California. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Ireland... with a whole lot of explaining to do. He had no passport or papers of any kind, nor had he received permission from U.S officials to make the transatlantic flight. Safely on the ground, Corrigan …showed first 75 words of 662 total…

…showed last 75 words of 662 total…he died in 1995 at the age of 88), people tried to get Corrigan to come clean--but he never did, not even in his autobiography. In 1988 Corrigan took Sunshine on a national tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his famous flight. He was continually asked the same question, "Were you really trying to fly to California?" "Sure," he answered. "Well, at least I've told myself that story so many times that now I believe it myself.