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Re: CN Aboard Commercial Flight
From: Zvi Doron
Date: 2012 Mar 12, 17:31 -0000
From: Zvi Doron
Date: 2012 Mar 12, 17:31 -0000
I once had to go into the Home Office in Croydon, England. I knew I will be waiting there for a few hours for documents to be prepared, so took with me one of my slide rules, a 5'' K+E Decilon, to play with. My bag was stopped at the X-Ray machine and I had to take the slide rule out and provide a long explanation, although one of the older security guards seems to vaguely know what it was. I never took a sextant on board a commercial flight but passed several times with various slide rules without any problems. -----Original Message----- From: Alan S Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 5:15 PM To: zvidoron@btinternet.com Subject: [NavList] Re: CN Aboard Commercial Flight Gary: Several yeares ago, on a return flight from Maine, I had a Davis Mk. 15 with me, a carry on piece. The security peson at check in, a lady, asked what was in the ehite plastic case. I told her it was "a sextasnt", to which she responsed with a double take or blank look. When I opened the case for her she said "oh a navigastional instrument", to which I responsed yes, going on my way, without additional question. So much for my adventures with the air transport of sextants. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------- NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList Members may optionally receive posts by email. To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=118323 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4866 - Release Date: 03/12/12
