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From: fiedler@netcom.COM (David Fiedler)
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Subject: Re: Laptopss on American now?
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Date: 5 May 91 06:26:30 GMT
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nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:

>Does anyone know if they are allowing laptops and similar electronic 
>items on board domestic flights yet?  I know that during the war
>they were not.

I flew via American from Sacramento to Dallas for Uniforum, one or two
days after the war started, with an 18 lb. television camera. Nobody said boo.
I didn't try to use it on the flight, of course, but there were batteries
and other things that "urban legend" says show up as plastic explosive...
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