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Evelyn Trout

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Bruce Bleakly, the executive director of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, about the life of Evelyn Trout. Trout broke several flight endurance records and she was the first female to complete an in-flight refueling operation. She died at the age of 97.

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