I've been waiting for them to stop me. My business, on occasion, requires
handling of expended rocket motors and other ordnance. My stuff has been
sniffed a number of times but has never set off the alarm.
.
Gary Edwards
people, places, flight at http://members.home.com/garyetx/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Marr-Lyon" <markml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] no more carryons?
> This device detects (at least) explosives. I know this from personal
> experience, since I set it off one time. I was leaving from the
> Minneapolis airport and this young guy checked my laptop case with the
> pad, then put it in the machine. When the readout came, his eyes just
> about came out of his head and he quickly ran and got his supervisor. He
> re-did the test, and found the same result. The machine indicated TNT on
> my laptop case! The only reason I could think of as to why it was there
> is that while visiting my brother-in-law who reloads his own ammunition,
> some trace of gunpowder found it's way onto my case. Anyhoo, back at the
> airport, they checked for TNT inside the case and on my laptop, didn't
> find anything, and let us on our way. Even then, I couldn't help but
> think that maybe that was being a little bit lax, since I could have just
> done a very good job cleaning off the laptop, but a little sloppy on the
> case. I'm sure in other countries that would have resulted in a lengthy
> delay while the rest of our luggage was thoroughly searched.
>
> Mark Marr-Lyon
>
> Mike Veglia wrote:
> >For film they will no doubt continue to do hand checks and you'll always
> >be able to carryon something the size of a diaper bag or purse so I'm
> >not too worried about film. On the subject of film, they had some kind
> >of a sensatized pad they layed against the ziplock bag my film was in
> >that then went into some kind of bomb detecting box the size of an old
> >large microwave oven. The pad had to process in there a while and after
> >about a minute or so they said I could be on my way. Not sure how that
> >worked...the pad had no physical contact with the film and the film did
> >not go into any detectors.
>
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