UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
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Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#2I don't know what kind of new scanner technology they have, but I noticed at Louis Armstrong International (MSY) they've dispensed with making you take your shoes off or pull your laptop out to be scanned separately. I hope they keep finding ways around this security theater malarkey.
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#3Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work?
I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag.
I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#4A picture would have been worth a thousand words in this article.
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#5Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work? I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag. I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
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Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#6I don't know what kind of new scanner technology they have, but I noticed at Louis Armstrong International (MSY) they've dispensed with making you take your shoes off or pull your laptop out to be scanned separately. I hope they keep finding ways around this security theater malarkey.
They most likely have the new fancy 360 degree xray machines. Basically the operator can look at the stuff inside your bag from any angle so having a laptop (hunk of metal blocking you from seeing what is behind it) won't block them from seeing the other stuff in the bag and thus no need to take them out anymore.
Shoes we never had to remove shoes or if we had to it was for a very short period of time.
At least that is what they did at Helsinki-Vantaa airport here in Finland. This is what is being used now https://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/products/920ct
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#7Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work? I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag. I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
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Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#8So... Just because they are able to see more about what is in my bag I am able to carry more liquid? Can't I just show it to them and just bring it there now?
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#9Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work? I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag. I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
> I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
Yup. You can do that to some extent.
Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
#10I think Helsinki Airport has them.
I had spray can of deodorant that i was able to take to Germany but on on way back it was deemed too dangerous.
Thou the new scanners didn't like my 3 stacked card decks or the 2 of 250ml "milkshakes".
Funny that the milkshakes needed to be drug tested while my 500mil smoothie was totally fine.