This Will Add a Few Bucks to Your Ticket

Imagine - a jetliner that smells you and watches your face and listens to detect any strange words or sounds you make, that monitors you in your seat and in the toilet. Kinda freaky, eh? Yeah, well get ready because this plane is under development right now in Europe. Here's how the Sydney Morning Herald describes it:

"At the door, a device reputedly 30 times more sensitive than a dog scans passengers for dangerous chemicals and vapours.

"After take-off, computers monitor conversations for suspicious words and fingernail-size video cameras detect any nervous facial tics. Buzzers or flashing lights on a computer screen warn the crew and pilot of potential trouble.

"The SAFEE project - Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment - is the first co-ordinated international effort to create an aircraft capable of thwarting hijackings and terrorist attacks.

"Testing of most of the technologies in simulators will begin this year and continue into next year, he said. The systems are unlikely to be available on commercial aircraft for 10 years because most would need to be built into the frames of planes during construction."

Here's a tip. If you're going flying, lay off the bean salad.