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From: Zvi <zvidoron@btinternet.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:31 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: CN Aboard Commercial Flight

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
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