“Wrong-Way” Corrigan Douglas Corrigan (1907–1995) was a self-taught mechanic and barnstorming pilot who built his own Curtiss Robin monoplane—nicknamed “Sunshine”—in a Brooklyn backyard. After winning acclaim for an east-to-west transcontinental flight in 1934, he endeavored to cross the Atlantic in 1938. The Bureau of Air Commerce refused to certify his plane for a non-stop New York–to–Ireland trip, citing concerns over fuel capacity and navigation equipment. Undeterred, Corrigan applied instea

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The airplane that landed on a hotel roof. In 1936, a pilot named Douglas Corrigan stunned the world by accidentally flying to Ireland instead of California in a beat-up aircraft he built himself. But two years later, another daredevil named Tommy Rose took it further. He landed a small plane on the rooftop of a London hotel to prove a point about city airport access. The landing strip was just 100 feet long and surrounded by steel rail. He touched down perfectly, shocking onlookers and press. Hi