FRIENDS OF CORRIGAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1939, Page 9

FRIENDS OF CORRIGAN

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

"MANY VALUABLE POINTERS"

(Received August 12, 11.30 a.m.)

ST. PETERS (Nova Scotia), August 11.

Two New Yorkers, Alex. Loeb, aged 32, and Dick Deceker, aged 23, after announcing their destination as Ireland, took off from Point Michaud Beach in a Ryan monoplane carrying 350 gallons of petrol at 9.4 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).

They remarked prior to their departure that they were friends of Douglas Corrigan, who flew the Atlantic "by mistake" a year ago, and that "he gave us many valuable pointers."

"Before taking off from New York I thought I set the compass properly; but here is where it brought me. After flying for 28 hours above the clouds, I decided to descend and ascertain my whereabouts. I saw mountains and thought 'That is California,' but later I saw the sea. Then I realised that I was over Ireland." That is how the American, airman Corrigan explained his amazing transatlantic flight from New York when he landed at Baldonnel Aerodrome, Dublin, in July last year.