Thanks everyone for the responses. Since I'm traveling fairly light, I think I'll go with carrying the RRS head in my pack & putting the legs inside my suitcase. Gonna have to get a bit larger suitcase, and a hard one at that!I have painful memories of the bad old days, traveling with an assortment of ATA-style cases stuffed with view camera & grip equipment. So I'm not tempted to get a shipping case for the tripod.I can't imagine getting thru TSA carrying a tripod, but once I saw someone in a terminal (Southwest?) walking around with a little tripod - I almost fell over.John
Their statement is that if it looks like a club needs to be checked in.