A DOUGLAS DC-3'S top speed is 230 mph, but on this particular journey the airplane was moving at a sedate 35 mph-still impressive for an aircraft whose wings had been removed. The vintage airliner, transported at 2 a.m. on a j flatbed trailer with a police escort, was being moved along a highway from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Mall location to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia.
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