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Re: Air travel with a sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 13:23 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 13:23 -0500
Thanks to all who addressed this issue. My conclusion is that one cannot be sure. Most of the flights I fly are multiple-leg flights (that's a hudge disadvantage of living in a little town in the Midwest) and the security checks usually happen each time I change the airplane. So if I don't want my sextant to be seized somewhere in the middle, it is probably better to pack it to my luggage. Next question: Celestaire advertizes some bomb-proof plastic box called "all weather sextant case", $84 with foam inside (they even offer to mold the foam according to the shape of your sextant, $14). Can anyone compare this box with the classic way of packing a sextant? I mean in its native wooden box with clamp, the worm disengaged from the arc, arm secured against the frame, empty spaces filled with foam, and the whole box put inside a bigger cardboard box filled with foam? (This is how my sextant arrived from Ukraine by UPS. The clamp arrived broken however). Alex.