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Incredible was the bare-faced yarn Corrigan told: "I left New York to return to Los Angeles, but by an unfortunate mistake I set my compass wrong, and when I got up above the clouds the visibility was very bad* When I had flown 25 hours I came down through the clouds and I was in Ireland...
Early one day this week, when the chatter about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...night long no one on North America saw tail or strut of Douglas Corrigan. Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans. It was Corrigan, all right, and an hour later he fluttered down at Baldonnel Airport near Dublin...
...just flown from New York " he remarked with a grin. "By the way, where am I?" Dubliners told him. "My," said Corrigan, "and I thought it was California all the time...
Technically under detention for landing on Irish soil without a passport, Gone Again Corrigan was this week as free as wire. And in Washington, where B. A. C. Chief Denis Mulligan was expected to decree some penalty for the outlaw flight there was a twinkling hint that whatever Corrigan had done was all right with Mulligan. Said Mr. Mulligan: "It's a great day in the history of the Irish people and we don't want to spoil their fun by talking about punishment...