TSA's Evolution of Security blog has a video showing its test facilty (TSIF) at Reagan National here in DC.

A bit more on that at the blog with lots of comments, not all of them entirely positive.

There's also an interesting post about some of the more challenging objects that outfit has to screen:

In a matter of minutes this morning, Blogger Bob found Internet sites with “how to build” instructions for a desulfator and radio receiver in a common mint tin (a desulfator is used to put high voltage pulses into a battery), a guitar amp out of a cigarette pack, a mint tin made into a guitar and a circuit bender made from an old plastic parts kit. While none of these items are threatening in and of themselves, imagine what a mint tin with wires, batteries and a switch looks like in an x-ray machine.

 

 

I enjoy not having their job.