Obscure Barnstormer Upstages Millionaire Hughes
Published July 22, 2008 | By Bartee Haile
Obscure Barnstormer Upstages Millionaire Hughes A Texas-born barnstormer coaxed his second-hand airplane into the thick clouds over a New York airfield on July 17, 1938, and to the amazement of wide-eyed onlookers turned a routine flight into an unscheduled trans-Atlantic crossing. The handful of spectators waited in vain for Douglas Corrigan to set a course for a California. When he vanished from sight on an easterly heading, one witness remarked, “I
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