Category Archives: airport/flight safety
Packing to pass muster at airport security
Here’s some of the less likely suspects – as tips go – from a recent NYTimes travel story to make it through security at the airport: – Tie up loose headphones and cellphone cords packed in your luggage so they’re … Continue reading
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Air security: a mind-reading machine?
And you thought a full-body scanner sounds invasive. Now comes word that some security experts are toying with the idea of using a device that scans our thoughts - if such a device can be perfected. That sounds like a … Continue reading
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Fly the El Al way?
All this talk about airport security has me wondering just what Israel’s El Al Airlines – which I last flew in 1982 – does that’s so effective. A Boston Globe columnist pointed out in an interesting 2006 story that what … Continue reading
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Strip Search Scanners: oh joy
Strip Search Scanners! What fun. Not really, but if that’s what it takes to fly safely from Amsterdam to Detroit – or anywhere else, then I may be ready to subject myself and others, all others, to what, during another … Continue reading
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