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YYZ is Toronto. Wonder where it's going and is it coming in or going out?
There is a guy familiar to the New England 356 club who has an original Speedster that he air-ships here and there for various car events, like the Mille Miglia and some Porsche Corporate events (Trust me, he can easily afford air shipping his toy around the world a few times each year). IIRC, he has a special shipping pallet with built-in ramps and tie-downs (so it can be lifted to the plane's hold with a scissors lift or forklift) and sometimes puts a soft cover on it and that's it. The deal with the shipper is that they can put a top-load, 1/4 high pallet under his pallet but nothing above it.
@Gordon Nichols posted:YYZ is Toronto. Wonder where it's going and is it coming in or going out?
Yes. That looks like Toronto International.
That's not a sight you see every day: a real 550, and being loaded on a plane to boot.
flooring pallet says property of Qatar, please return to DOH(not sure where that is)
DOH is Department of Health UAE
Most likely "return to Doha, Qatar", which is a major air hub, like DFW (Dallas-Ft. Worth). Depending on current air traffic, they can use a returning pallet to load other stuff onto it going towards the middle east or simply stack a bunch of airship pallets together all going to (more-or-less) the same place. They all get there, eventually.
@LeadPedal posted:Not really odd. Cars are shipped all the time via air freight.
yes, 'cars' are shipped all of the time,
But I was pondering; is it not odd that an original multi-million $ value 550 Porsche Spyder isn't in a crate, or at least covered?
even I can find images of 'lesser' valued cars in shipping containers
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Container shipped cars are on ships. A shipping container weighs a lot! On a ship containers are stacked many high; this is not possible in an aircraft. We don't put cars in a container to ship them over the road.
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Thanks, what you stated makes perfect sense.
It isn't my car or money so what's it to me if they ship it around without protection.
Yeah - I'd want 8" of foam and that white vinyl shrink wrap used on boats! Even pigeon poop is a danger!
I'd put the tonneau on and zip it up. Least you can do...