Pat Nagel built model airplanes and had all the aviation books she could handle as a little girl in the 1930s. She pursued her passion as a flight attendant and as a docent for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Now 80, she has been a valuable source of expertise for museum curators who prepared the museum's new permanent exhibit "America by Air." Nagel, an American Airlines attendant from 1950 to 1952, was able to explain the purpose...
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