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Flying? Don’t Take Your Lens Dust Blower – It Is A Deadly Weapon, Security Says

Dec 18, 2013 by Udi Tirosh 5 Comments

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It seems like taking photography gear on airplanes is a tricky business. Not only you take a chance of your things getting lost, but also, you can be suspected of carrying a deadly weapon.

Flying? Better not Take Your Lens Dust Blower Lest Security Mistakes It For a Deadly Rocket

Canon Rumors reader Surapon shares a story on how he was coming back from Greece with his full kit, which among other things contained a Giottos Rocket Air Blower. It is a cushion-like pump that blows air on lenses to push dust away.

And yes – it has fins.

Airport security forced Surapon to throw away the blower because it could be filled with gun powder and be used like a missile.

Here is the account of things from Surapon:

“[Security] just open my back pack, full with 2 Cameras and Lenses, and He pick up The Black Rocket “Big Giottos Blower” and ask me that What is it …
… I told the security staff that, just the Lens Blower, and I grab from his hand and blow the stream air to my face, and tell him that just for clean the dirty lenses…
… [Security] just tell me that I must throw this Rocket away, before he let me out of the terminal …
… His Supervisor explain to him that , If some one put the Gun powder in side if this Rocket Blower, It can fly like the Missile”#

On the other hand, there are more than enough ways to get a weapon in an airport.

Surapon’s solution? Cut the fins of his next blower.

[My New and Improve GIOTTOS Blower-for safety via chakalakasp] (illustration cc by the The U.S. Army)

P.S. Some people think it is a good idea to place a Gun In Your Luggage to make it travel safely. Just saying.

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About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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