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Sam Hassas wrote:Gear should be with you at all times whenever possible. If gear can't be with you it needs to be cased in a waterproof pelican. Try and have your most impotartant gear as carry on, (enough to shoot your gig with a bare minimum). Mailing systems fail more often then Airlines bar none. Showing up to a destination wedding and the gear doesn't arrive. Yeah, no thanks.
I concur with this, with bitter experience to back it up. All the common carriers I've used... from UPS, to Fed Ex, to USPS, to Yellow Freight, to DHL, at all levels of service they offer (air ground boat) have at one time or another failed to deliver on time or in tact or both.
And sometimes, for the traveling photographer, plans can change midstream. I've been asked to stay a day longer on shoots, and at times I've been told I'd be provided a hotel, but haven't known the hotel until I arrived in town. In that case, where would I have shipped my gear to? I prefer it with me.
Winglets are being retrofitted to planes that didn't used to have them. Even commuter jets have winglets. The incidence of winglet retrofits has dramatically increased since the fuel price spike of 2006, as they are intended to improve fuel economy. I"ve flown 737's with winglets and without winglets. I've seen old 747's now sporting winglets. Winglets may help reduce lift-induced drag, but they are entirely immaterial to my preflight preparation. That's something for the pilot to notice, not me. Winglets do not help me in plane identification, as so many different aircraft have them nowadays.
And something further... the aircraft manuacturer (ie Boeing) and model number (ie 757) do not conclusively determine the interior dimensions for stowing carryons either. That isn't enough information. The same airline (ie Delta) can uses different models of 757s in their fleet, each with different seating configurations. It can have to do with whether the airline ordered the plane themselves, or acquired the aircraft from an out of business carrier (ie TWA), or combined their fleet with another carrier (ie Northwest).
To continue with the example of the 757, I've seen 757's with short overheads where rollerboards have to be run sideways, and 757's with extended overheads where rollerboards can go in handles or wheels first. I've seen underseats that have life vest holders that interfere with a hard case from sliding under, and underseats that have a clean flat bottom.
So, to post a picture of merely a wing, without knowing the airline, and the specific plane (757-200? 757-200B? 757-200 International? 757-300?) it is hard to guess at the specifics of the space you'll be working your carryons into. It is best to contact the airline. That is what I do. Believe it or not, they have the info.
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it is the 737-800 which goes from CLE to CUN 
) I intend to get there with as much of my gear as I left with, and if it means my little ones helping lug a little of the load... then so be it 
