Right after 9/11 they were the most crazy; taking away nail clippers and such from the flight crews even. Once I saw them take an entire inventory of "beauty tools" from a flight attendant, anything made of metal. No consistency, some stations were real bad and some reasonable.
Rather than take everything away, my inclination would have been to issue a K-bar to everyone as they boarded. You may further arm half a dozen bad guys but you also just armed over 100 (more or less) other folks. My money would be on the rest of the passengers. Sure, not really a practical idea but more of a way of thinking. Empower regular folks to do for themselves and they will rise to the occasion. Obviously that goes against the grain of those who would rather have the gov telling you what clothes to put on in the morning and what kind of car you can drive, etc.
Our mechanics would put the tool boxes in the back whenever they were riding to a broke airplane. Usually the boxes were a little big to bring inside anyway. I'm not 100% sure how much of the tools they had to own. There were a lot of highly specialized tools that the company owned that they would "check out" for a road trip. The biggest problem with checking stuff is it getting lost or misdirected, especially if you have connecting flights. There's a lot of variable and a lot of opportunity for things to go wrong.
Ah, the old "solo shirt". I remember that day. Our school used 152's for primary instruction and my instructor was a big guy. Funny how a 1200 lb airplane responds when you subtract 200 lbs!
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