Your right! I was not thinking in 3D. This is the Delta limit for size. All of your checked baggage must fit in these dimensions: Domestic 62"x55"x45" International 62" square. Looks like your 52" box will work international. Just pack everything else around it the weight limit per piece of luggage is 70 lbs. Also they sometimes make you pay extra for sports equipment even if it fits in this requirement. I had to pay extra for a bike that was in a case of less than these dimensions. Jim >>> Saul Kinderis <saul_at_isomedia.com> 05/13/98 10:47am >>> Actually 52 inches per side was correct as follows: If you remember our old friend Pathegrious (spelling?) A squared + B squared = C squared 52 squared (2,704) + 52 squared (2,704) = 5,408 take the square root = 73.53 diagonal for the first two sides. Now take 73.53 squared (5,408) + 52 squared (2,704) = 8,112 take the square root = 90.06 this is for the compound diagonal on both axis. Isn't math fun -Saul At 08:42 AM 5/13/98 -0500, Jim Martin wrote: >Guy's and Gals, > >The shortest box you can put a 90" rod in the diagional is roughly 63.6" >on each side. (63.6*63.6*2)^1/2=89.94". A 52 inch box would need >require that the other side be ~73" > >Jim > >>>> Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu> 05/12/98 04:34pm >>> >Barbara Kossy wrote: > >> Last year, when I flew Florence to SF, I had only one suitcase and >check a 7 >> foot plus paddle as my second bag with no problem. >> >> This year, I called the information line and they told me the rules, that >an >> item over 7 feet counts as two bags, no matter what the weight. I >have a 7.5 >> foot paddle, and a 7 ft. paddle. >> >> The agent on the phone also told me that if I again just show up with >the >> paddle, they may just let me through again, with no extra charge. >> >> Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? >> >This was the subject of a Car Talk puzzler recently. Call them back and >ask if you can send a box 52" on a side as a 2nd bag. A 7.5 foot paddle >just happens to fit in there diagonally. > >Steve >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > > Saul Kinderis saul_at_isomedia.com tel:(425)402-3426 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Jim Martin wrote: > ... > > This is the Delta limit for size. All of your checked baggage must > fit in > these dimensions: > > Domestic > > 62"x55"x45" > > International > > 62" square. > > ... Thanks for looking this up. The domestic limits of 62x55x45 imply a diagonal of 94.308", which is just under 240cm. A paddle 230cm or shorter should fit with ease, even allowing for the paddle blades and for the thickness of the box. By the way, my post regarding the 52" box contained a typo--the diagonal is 90.06 (not 90.6), as Saul Kinderis correctly pointed out. For a more complex problem, let's calculate the effect of blade feather on the maximum paddle size that will fit in a given box. (Obviously this will also depend on blade shape.) My intuition tells me that paddles with 0 degrees of feather (unfeathered) and 60 degrees of feather will fit equally well in a symmetric box. Dan Hagen Bellingham, Washington *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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