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Re: Getting FLL robot through TSA security

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Originally Posted by Bruce Newendorp View Post
I travelled with an FLL team from Iowa to the European Open Championship in Bodø, Norway in May 2007. I was chosen to be the one to carry the precious robot and had no problem at all taking it as carry on. We placed it with some bubble wrap around it in a plastic toolbox that I had around. We left the rechargeable battery pack in it.
Just a warning about bubble wrap. I have heard horror stories about teams putting robots packed in bubble wrap arriving at their destinations bent and crushed. What happens is when the robot is put in the cargo compartment of the plane the lower pressures at high altitude cause the bubble wrap to expand (with some umph behind it) enough to bend a pretty solid vex chassis into a nice "C" shape

~DK
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