"The Flying Irishman"- Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan

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I just watched a brilliant old black and white movie called "The Flying Irishman"...

 

Bloody amazing story based upon real events and starring the real Douglas Corrigan himself... The flying scenes were brilliant... some dodgy looking models... BUT also featuring flying and cockpit footage of the one and only SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS of which Douglas Corrigan was one of the builders as well as some beautiful live flying scenes featuring original Jenny's, other classic US Biplanes of the era and his Curtis Wright Monoplane which over the years he modified extensively, even building his own motor from 2x Wright Whirlwinds for a much greater output of 165hp. The then new Civil Aviation regulators in the US refused to give his machine an airworthy... and the rest is history, although one you don't hear so much about.

 

Below is an quote from The Adventures of Wrong-Way Corrigan about this amazing and dogged aviator...

 

"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 out. Corrigan, who had spent three years trying to get permission to fly from New York to Dublin, had been told that he could fly nonstop from New York to California, but an ocean crossing was out of the question. 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."

 

 

 

 

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