Ash
Selflessly Self-involved
my rf/vf was knocked out of vertical with a bit of a bump in my pocket (fed-2, all metal those things)... there's NO hope for us if its in the hold
Brits Ban Cameras on Planes
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anselwannab
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I saw on CNN, I think, that even a watch battery could be used as an ignitor! Welcome back autowind wathes!!!
Looks like we're all going back to pinhole cameras!
Mark
Looks like we're all going back to pinhole cameras!
Mark
John Robertson
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I wouldn't worry about that Ash!! There's a fair chance the camera won't be there anyway!! Especially if you use one of the suitcases you get now which close with a zipper, two minutes with a Stanley knife will sort that!!Ash said:
I have a friend who used to work at Heathrow, his advice was never put valuables in your case, they are x-rayed, so the thiieves know exactly which cases to target, they just opened the candy store!!!😱
taffer
void
I wonder what pro photogs having to travel for assignment are doing now 😕
I foresee a new incoming business as rent-a-camera places in airports. Get what you want at your destination, check it in back before leaving, they take care of sending your rolls home or (more likely) burn you dvd's with the contents of the cards.
Any interested partner ? 😛
Oscar
I foresee a new incoming business as rent-a-camera places in airports. Get what you want at your destination, check it in back before leaving, they take care of sending your rolls home or (more likely) burn you dvd's with the contents of the cards.
Any interested partner ? 😛
Oscar
John Camp
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xayraa33 said:
I could only do that if the Zorki had a really long lens. 😀
JC
Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
RML said:
And what rock are you hiding under? While Oklahomka city was a white dude, it did not involve an aircraft. So far it's the Muslims that are the ones going after planes.
We'll stop calling them on it when they stop trying to down planes.
enochRoot
a chymist of some repute
taffer said:
sounds like a brilliant idea! lets get rich off this beyatch 😀
John Camp
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As far as using small electronic items as detonators goes, the Israelis in 1996 lured a Palestinian bomb-maker known as "The Engineer" into getting his cell phone fixed at a place the Israelis controlled. If I remember correctly, they knew he'd pass the damaged cell phone along through friends to a particular shop. So every time his number (which their intelligence service had obtained) was fired up, they jammed it. The guy thought his cell phone was wrecked, so he sent it back to the shop for warranty service, and the Israelis slipped a little C4 into it. When the phone was returned to the Engineer, the next time he used it...the reception was terminally clear. The point being that very small devices can be used as housing for explosives, and as far as I know, plastique could be molded to look liike anything. So for the time being...maybe it's better to buy the water (Coke, Gatoraide) on the plane... The real problem is going to come if they try to ban laptops; half the people on the plane use laptops to do work that they don't have time to do at the office...
JC
JC
Andrew Touchon
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patrickjames said:
On October 23, 1983 I was the aircraft maintenance department head aboard the USS Iwo Jima, (LPH-2). We were on station a couple of miles off the coast of Beirut. Our mission was "Peace Keeping." Early in the morning, after the Marine barracks was attacked, we closed to about a half mile off the airport ,which is located right on the beach, and started a helicopter airlift of the wounded to our ship. When the dust settled, we had 220 dead marines, 18 dead sailors and 3 dead soldiers ashore and approximately 200-300 wounded aboard our ship. The sickbay which is very large aboard a LPH overflowed and we ended up with about 150 injured marines on our hanger deck, all with IVs stuck in their arms and volunteers holding their hands.
The very fact that you are in a free country and can express yourself on forums such as this without fear, makes you a potential terrorist target. Some may call them "Freedom Fighters," however, I have another name for those that commit senseless acts of murder.
PS.. In 1985, I put my wife on a TWA flight at the Rome airport for a return flight to the USA. About a week later, "Freedom Fighters," attacked the TWA counter in the Rome airport with machine guns, killing many innocent people. Rant over.
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amateriat
We're all light!
How dare you harbor the same thoughts as I! 😉kmack said:
Of course, I believe the efficacy of the plot...but these guys were being shadowed for months, apparently. And the symbolic close proximity to early September fits in as well. Not puttin' the shiny hat on just yet, but I'm watching this story awfully closely.
Last time I had to fly domestically (2004) I joked about how Amtrak starts looking better every month. Not a joke now, and suddenly, cruise ships aren't looking as archaic as they did a few years back, either.
- Barrett
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Oy. Looks like it's digital for me again for my next trip. The can't knock the pixels out of alignment --- I'll be pretty pissed if they can accomplish that feat.taffer said:
Great idea...but...the logistics! OY
amateriat
We're all light!
That's what has me worried as well: it's sort of a better-mouse-trap-versus-better-mouse situation here, and I don't think it'll be long before someone (likely multiple "someones" as in this case) attempts a slip-through with a laptop equipped with a a little something "extra". Hopefully that will fail as well, but what happens afterward will make the current "inconvenience" seem trivial.John Camp said:
- Barrett
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Nice. Just like all underdeveloped nations will stop calling on Westerners when they stop subjugating all underdeveloped nations?Al Patterson said:
And around and around and around we go. Where does it stop? On their side? I think the astigmatism has to stop at home. Hate is hate is hate.
enochRoot
a chymist of some repute
amateriat said:
of course there is the achilles laurel all those years ago...
but yes...planes and boats are good.
Ash
Selflessly Self-involved
John Robertson said:
EXACTLY!!!!
You can't trust ANYONE. I think that's what's wrong with the world. OK OK back a few hundred years ago when we were barbaric stealing and killing was fine, but in a culture you have to be polite to strangers, what the hell gives someone a right to x-ray your belongings and take what they like from them???
UGH This is ridiculous. I'm not a racist, and the IRA, Nazi's, Vietnam, Crusades, etc etc etc proved your nationality, race or belief is not what's important. Every human is sick, be it a Musllim or Arab or true British or American Citizen.
This world needs a wakeup call. I'm sick of people labelling others. And I'm sick of these 'terrorists'.
It's now affecting my only true loves in this world. And that's going far enough.
ampguy
Veteran
Ash
Selflessly Self-involved
A good read, if only we all live to see the garden disappear....
aad
Not so new now.
Gee, my old IIIf gets slammed around quite a lot and still focuses fine. I'll carry it on when I'm ready to fly.
John Robertson
Well-known
I wouldn't be so self satisfied, the slamming around is the least of your worries, good packing can sort that!!!😛aad said:
