On 3/21/17 7:12 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
"flight" there is the word. Why drive up a mountain? Take the clock
with you inside the pressurized cabin of a commercial airliner next time
you are on one of those 10 hour trans=pacific flights. You be taller then
any mountain and it is actually cheaper then a weather balloon.
Can you get a Rb clock past the TSA x-ray machine. Maybe if you ask
first. There must be a way to hand cary specialized equipment.
I hand carry specialized equipment all the time and let it go through
the x-ray. About 1 time out of 10, they'll ask to open it up so they
can swab it for the explosives residue ion mobility machine. Nothing
looks as suspicious as a big block of something with two wires come out
of it (i.e. a 7Amp-hour 12V lead acid battery).
In fact, I did it yesterday with an unlabeled black pelican case holding
a 8x10" PC board with a bunch of cards stacked on it.
While I have my NASA ID and a shipping document describing it, I've
never had to show either. Driver's license, 55 year old guy who looks
like an engineer, and so forth, so maybe I don't look like the notional
threat?
When we hand carry "flight hardware" we do put it in a QA sealed (tape)
antistatic bag, in a QA sealed container, with a special letter that's
been coordinated 24 hours before with TSA. And we don't let it go
through the X-ray (although not for any good reason that I know..).
There's some process you're supposed to follow if they insist on opening
it so you show up at the airport hours ahead of time.
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