---------------------------------------------------------- RV8-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 05/02/11: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 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) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:03:53 AM PST US From: Paul Rice Subject: RE: RV8-List: 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 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 09:37:13 AM PST US From: Speedy11@aol.com Subject: RV8-List: 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 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 09:21:46 PM PST US From: Matt Dralle 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 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 11:27:34 AM PST US From: "Pete Cowper" Subject: RV8-List: 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. 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