Air and Space Museum Opens New Aviation History Gallery
posted 6:16 pm Fri November 16, 2007 - WASHINGTON
The new exhibit "America by Air," which opens Saturday took curators more than five years to develop. The permanent exhibit is the first major gallery to be updated in several years at what has been the world's most visited museum. It traces history of passenger air travel from its very beginning, including the early attempts to start up airlines just a decade after the Wright brothers made the first flight in 1903.
The front section of a huge Boeing 747 airliner from Northwest Airlines pokes its nose into the new gallery.Eighty-year-old Pat Nagel of Arlington has been a valuable source of expertise for museum curators preparing the exhibit. She served as an American Airlines attendant from 1950 to 1952 and will give tours.
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