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Avatar User Offline destrat
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Posted: December/17/2021 at 7:50am  Quote
 
Appowner,

That is not such a farfetched idea. When I was a mechanic for the airlines, I once sold a Proctor Albatros kit to a guy in Oregon. I measured up the box and went into the hanger knowing what aircraft flies the route and measured up the overhead bin, it would fit so I too hand carried it from Minneapolis to Portland. Boy you should have seen the looks I was getting though, but it made it in one piece. I can only imagine the looks you got with that helicopter fuse.

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Posted: December/17/2021 at 8:44am  Quote
 
Not quite on topic, but I reduced the full 1/6 scale SE5a kit into a shoebox and then hand-carried it back from Germany to Japan.  I did this by opting not to have any of the "lumber" and removed all the parts from their CNC frames.  

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Posted: December/17/2021 at 9:34am  Quote
 
I had good success with the bus shipping back in 2019. Reasonable $. It was a PITA to get to the bus station and meet all the colorful people that tend to congregate there while maneuvering a box large enough that a body would fit in.
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Posted: December/03/2022 at 5:20pm  Quote
 
I posted this in another forum. Most people don't know of this option in UPS shipping:



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Posted: December/03/2022 at 6:56pm  Quote
 
MANY THANKS!

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