Sorry for typos, english is not my native language so I hope everybody understand me. The question goes especially to all those folks who have ever ordered a ram air hood.

I checked http://ramairhood.com and loved their hood for firebird. I want to take this package as a baggage with me on a plane. I contacted Continental Airlines and they told me that the maximum dimensions of a package that Continental will accept is a total of 115 inches (L + W + H). Ramairhood.com package 77' 9' 56' (142 inches) exceeds those dimensions, but may be shipped as cargo.

142-115=only 27 inches. I'm not familiar with their package techniques, so I was thinking if its possible for me to make the package more compact myself? My idea - what if I separate the air box from the package, win some free space by this way and cut the carton package to make it more slim? Or rebuild/remove some mitigations inside the package to make it more slim?

What do you think? I understand that I take whole risks on myself doing it, question is theoretical. I haven't seen ramairhood.com package from inside so I do not know how much space mitigations and air box take. Definitely I will not blame anyone afterwards.

Oh and there is one more way - to remove whole carton box, cover the hood with some soft mitigation materials and pack the whole damn thing into plastic. Im not sure how it will survive after those conditions. Any thoughts?

Why am I doing it? My company pays the overweight fees for me, but Im not sure they agree to pay for cargo. Have to ask them about it.


Again. Any thoughts? Any advise is highly appreciated!
Thank you!
Rasmus

 

Oh damn, just checked - it really hard to make those 9 inches more slim to win 27 inches
Looks like a mission impossilble

 

It's not even the cost of sending this that concerns me the most, it's the treatment and handling it would be subject to at the hands of airline personnel that would frighten me from doing it. You could build the box you shipped it in out of forged adamantium and line it with kryptonite and they would still manage to find a way to damage it.

 

Good one!
Actually i was thinking to use mithril and line it with unobtainium but thanks for hint

 

I don't think it is possible. Just the hood itself is roughly 60x50. Even if you had no packaging at all it would be very close to the max allowed dimensions I believe.

 

Problem solved. I will ship it in container. Never say never, its good to have firends in car sales business.

 

I feel your pain. It's hard to get the big stuff if you dont live in the states. Shipping and making arrangements are a PITA.