On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, wrote: > Yeah, but I am envisaging something a little larger than a USB stick, > like a PCB about 2" x 3" with a few chips and a Cr2032 battery or > similar on it. I would start to have suspicions of it being some form of > electronic timer device (which it is, but not for that purpose), > especially if it is essentially unpackaged, i.e. it is not in some > identifiable plastic box that looks like it could be a radio or similar. > If the battery happens to be in a separate holder with flying leads that > would start alarm bells ringing ... I usually have about 4 to 5 of the following http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/408113-kit-dev-bluecore5-multimedia-v2-btn= -002-2b.html in various conditions of modification flying leads dangling batteries, usually with a tangled mess of wires. Which I think is close to what you class as suspicious and never been stopped. This is why I think the X-Ray staff are probably looking for other factors components, which i'm sure we probably shouldn't discuss in a public forum. > As a side issue to this I believe an American country singer had to > check his guitar a while back on an American Airlines flight (normally > he had been allowed to take it as cabin baggage). Said guitar was pretty > valuable, and passengers watching out the aircraft windows witnessed it > being tossed around the tarmac by baggage handlers. Needless to say it > arrived at destination severely damaged. Singer then wrote a song about > event, and I believe it ended up on YouTube, went viral and caused much > embarrassment to AA who had refused to compensate him for the damage. > Apparently the viral nature of the video caused AA to change their mind, > and so another song was writ, but berating them for having to go this > route to get just compensation. hehehehe - Airline staff :) Regards, Gordon --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .