Aviator Doug "Wrong Way" Corrigan explains the right way to fly a 'Culver V' airplane to Ruth Reid of Grand Central Terminal (in Glendale). Ms. Reid will be a contestant in the "Queen of the Air Parks" contest to be held at Whiteman Airpark on July 27th and 28th, 1946. Doug Corrigan earned the moniker "Wrong Way" in 1938 after he flew to Ireland instead of to California as planned. His request to make a trans-Atlantic flight had been declined, but he claimed that he had landed in Ireland due to compass failure. Photo taken on July 20, 1946 at Whiteman Airpark in Pacoima.
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