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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (26443)	1/14/2005 5:11:21 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) of 90947

us.imdb.com I thought I remembered an old movie about a "Wrong way Corrigan"...but he flew an airplane the wrong way. The Flying Irishman (1939) Directed by Leigh Jason Plot Summary: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film... (more) User Comments: Which way did he go, George? (more) Trivia: RKO paid Douglas Corrigan more than $100,000 for rights to his biography. (more) Douglas Corrigan was an early example of the '15 minutes of fame' phenomenon. A working-class Texan from a family with strong Irish-American roots, Corrigan bought a junked aeroplane and fixed it to his own satisfaction - some parts literally held on with baling wire - and in 1938 he flew cross-country from California to New York, intending to do a Lindy and fly solo across the Atlantic to Ireland. In New York, flight officials refused to certify Corrigan's airborne jalopy as airworthy for the transatlantic flight, and he was ordered to turn round and fly back home. (The certification standards were laxer for an overland flight, for reasons which I assume are obvious.) Corrigan agreed to fly west from New York, and was cleared for take-off. Straight away he was in the air, Corrigan volte-faced as his 'plane did an about-turn and flew east. Several thousand miles later, when he landed, he affected to be greatly surprised that he was in Ireland rather than California ... claiming that he had flown above cloud cover for the entire trip, and hadn't realised he was flying over ocean instead of land! He also claimed that his instruments were defective (I believe that part), so he'd thought he was flying west instead of east! Corrigan was promptly nicknamed 'Wrong Way' Corrigan by an affectionate public who knew damned well he was lying, but who admired his brass-bottle gumption. To this day, one continues to encounter the nickname 'Wrong Way Corrigan' hung on anyone who proceeds in the wrong direction. santaanahistory.com

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