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Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan and his airplane at Van Nuys , Calif., Airport in 1939. (WIKIMEDIA PHOTO)

The year 1938 was the height of the Art Deco era. Streamlined styling was slipping into the mainstream, and Ford introduced the Mercury division.

With that I’m going to break from ground-bound transportation and take to the skies. Aviation was still in its infancy. Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic just 11 years prior but two years before “Lucky Lindy” would make history, 18-year-old Douglas Corrigan took his first airplane ride in a Curtis Jenny and soloed in March of that year.

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