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 Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:37 am Post subject: Baggage door opening |
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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(at)matronics.com writes:
| Quote: | 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 <dralle(at)matronics.com>
Subject: Re: 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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