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1. 06:03 AM - Re: Baggage door opening... (Paul Rice)
2. 09:37 AM - Re: Baggage door opening (Speedy11@aol.com)
3. 11:27 AM - Re: Baggage door opening... (Pete Cowper)
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Subject: | Baggage door opening... |
Good to know. My policy is to never=2C never take the keys out of the bagg
age door while it is open or unlock. My ignition key is on the same ring
=2C so there is know way for me to leave it unlock and start the engine at
the same time. I hope!!!
From: bjudge@gmail.com
Subject: RV8-List: Baggage door opening...
Greetings Fellow RV-8 drivers=2C
This one goes in the fessing up for the greater good category.
Today I flew back home from Las Vegas(Henderson) to Gillespie field in San
Diego. I was tooling along at 12=2C500 fat=2C dumb and happy as they say w
hen I realized that my baggage door latch was hanging out in the slipstream
. It usually isn't visible. I've got an after market carbon fiber door and
it has a latch that is somewhat different from the standard door but all th
e same=2C I think this could easily happen to a standard RV-8 door.
So I knew well in advance that my baggage door would probably open on landi
ng due to different airflow and sure enough=2C below about 80 knots the thi
ng opened. Adding throttle would close it but interestingly a slip with rig
ht rudder didn't close it.
I landed as uneventfully as possible. There was no damage to the door or pl
ane.
The latch has been very dependable for 600 hrs so I must have left it open.
Lesson for everyone: the plane won't fall out of the sky if the front bagga
ge door comes open.
Lesson for me: Check the baggage latch dummy.
Bill Judge
N84WJ=2C RV-8 600 hrs.
rv-8.blogspot.com
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Subject: | Re: Baggage door opening |
Ha. I thought I was the only dummy. I left my key in the lock one day
also (nothing but a key) so no damage and door didn't open.
It's interesting to hear your story about it opening on landing.
I added a gas spring to mine that forces it open unless latched. That way
it's sticking right in front of me if I forget to latch it. Now I just
have to devise some way to remember the key!
Stan Sutterfield
In a message dated 5/2/2011 3:06:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rv8-list@matronics.com writes:
Today I flew back home from Las Vegas(Henderson) to Gillespie field in San
Diego. I was tooling along at 12,500 fat, dumb and happy as they say when
I
realized that my baggage door latch was hanging out in the slipstream. It
usually isn't visible. I've got an after market carbon fiber door and it
has
a latch that is somewhat different from the standard door but all the same,
I think this could easily happen to a standard RV-8 door.
So I knew well in advance that my baggage door would probably open on
landing due to different airflow and sure enough, below about 80 knots the
thing opened. Adding throttle would close it but interestingly a slip with
right rudder didn't close it.
I landed as uneventfully as possible. There was no damage to the door or
plane.
The latch has been very dependable for 600 hrs so I must have left it open.
Lesson for everyone: the plane won't fall out of the sky if the front
baggage door comes open.
Lesson for me: Check the baggage latch dummy.
Bill Judge
N84WJ, RV-8 600 hrs.
rv-8.blogspot.com
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Time: 09:21:46 PM PST US
From: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Subject: Re: RV8-List: Baggage door opening...
Thanks for the pirep, Bill.
I took off with the keys still in the baggage door lock once. It was
latched,
but still, the keys banging around make quite a racket. Thankfully, they
didn't
come out of the lock or I'd of never found them! :-)
Matt
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Subject: | RE: Baggage door opening... |
"I took off with the keys still in the baggage door lock once."
As long as we are giving tips . . . years ago when I was a service station
dealer rep for Union 76, my service station dealers used to put the restroom
keys on items too big to go in customer's pockets. A pink fluffy puffball on
the men's chain tended to always get the key returned.
Pete Cowper
RV8 #81139 (working on cockpit side rails)
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