Slowly, all those ETD and manual-load EDS machines will be replaced with sophisticated behind-the-scenes screening, where bags will be automatically sent through EDS systems built into the baggage handling systems. I know that the following machine may be used:
www.invision-tech.com/products/ctx9000.htm

I'm guessing that those manual-load CTX machines will be sent to smaller airports that just use ETD (e.g. SYR) that don't need inline baggage screening systems or used for baggage threat resolution in bigger airports in high resolution mode.

Wonder if screeners will be in a separate room to examine images of suspect bags and can decide whether or not to send them for further inspection (in special threat-resolution area) vs. sitting right next to the machines. A rather lonely job! (My idea: Have multiple screeners (who don't know who's looking at what) examine the same images of suspect bags for multiple opinions. Keeps them alert!)

JAX: http://www.aci-na.org/docs/Coutu.ppt
(More of a technical layout and just an engineering design proposal.)

DFW/SEA/BOS: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/st...07/daily6.html

LAS/LAX/DEN:
http://www.tsa.dot.gov/public/displa...44&content=678

PIT:
http://www.airportnet.org/depts/publ...3/ja033036.pdf

Last paragraph: "PIT's plan also addresses the customer-relations side of the rare but inevitable instances when bags fail the first screening levels. Travelers will be able to proceed to the end of the terminal building, where a trace detection station will be located, to witness screening firsthand." Hope what they mean is an implementation of my dream: Passenger-attended physical inspections.

Hope all these inline baggage screening designs (will eventually) implement my this.

- Pat

[This message has been edited by Wiirachay (edited 09-14-2003).]