"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel . . . It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs" . July 17, 1938. Douglas Corrigan tops off the fuel tank of his tiny 1929 Curtis Robin monoplane. Moments later Corrigan is airborne from the East Coast's Floyd Bennett Airfield. The plane is hardly state-of-the-art. His cabin door is literally tied shut with baling wire. Two compasses comprise the sum of his navigational instruments. Corrigan's flight plan was to head west across the interior of the United States. Destination? Long Beach, California.

But something goes wrong. Seriously wrong. Twenty-nine hours later Corrigan lands his monoplane near Dublin. Not Dublin, California. The real Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. Remarkably, Corrigan has flown east instead…