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Herb Toomey flies
to Havana to meet with Charles Lindburg
February 8, 1928 Port au Prince to Havana, Cuba
(Carried three sacks of mail, including one sack from Santo Domingo.)
9 hrs. 20 min.
February 13, 1928 Havana to Lambert Field, St. Louis, Mo.
(Both compasses malfunctioned over Florida Strait, at night. The earth-inductor needle wobbled back and forth. The liquid compass card rotated without stopping. Could recognize no stars through heavy haze. Located position, at daybreak, over Bahama Islands, nearly 300 miles off course. Liquid compass card kept rotating until the Spirit of St. Louis reached the Florida coast.)
15 hrs. 35 min.
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John Samuel
Toomey, Washington, D.C.
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