Rick wrote:

Nice hangar flying tale but it falls apart when the "pre 9-11" sniffer
machine went off. Which airport had sniffer machines at passenger
screening points at all much less used them to sniff passenger
clothing or carryon baggage?

I have very definite memories of having my bags swabbed and sniffed for
explosives at National Airport long before September 2001.

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