"Wrong Way" Corrigan and his Curtiss Robin
From Historynet.com: When 31-year-old Douglas Groce Corrigan took off from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field on July 17, 1938, in a modified Curtiss Robin, he carried two chocolate bars, two boxes of fig bars, a quart of water and a U.S. map with the route from New York to California marked on it… It was a foggy morning. Corrigan flew into the haze and disappeared. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Dublin and instantly became a national hero. Read More: http://www.historynet.com/the-adventures-of-wrong-way-corrigan.htm
