When this happened all I could think of is that post where you said it has never happened to you after a trillion intercontinental flights and be like “welp first time for everything.” In that regard I am a trailblazer.
I will say I don’t count splatters in the cap. However I am also a proud owner of several stained shirts after my ink bottles spilled in my suitcase <3
My brand new TWSBI mini vac-filler leaked on a plane (with the valve closed). Not a ton, but enough to permanently stain a lovely pen case and give me inky fingers for awhile. (Of course, I would normally have put a full pen in a plastic bag, but I was overconfident, because vac-filler!)
I have been known to confidently, snootily comment on various Reddit threads that I've never had a fountain pen leak on me mid-flight, and to date, that remains true. Even during transpacific and transatlantic long-hauls! Of course, I never use them *in-flight*, so that helps.
But ah, the higher you go, the farther you have to fall. After a flight home from Italy last June, three days after arrival, I took out my new Opus 88 demonstrator -- the kind with the shut-off valve, which I had kept shut off throughout the flight home, I swear -- and it merrily squirted what seemed like an entire gallon of the bluest ink all over both hands. High capacity barrel indeed. How it seeped onto my left hand -- which hadn't even touched it -- I'll never know, but I suspect it was so angry at the change in air pressure upon reaching land that the mighty tantrum it threw would spare no bare skin within five feet of it.
So if I don’t buy a Pineider none of this will happen, they said while boarding the flight with several vacuum fillers and Japanese eyedroppers.
When this happened all I could think of is that post where you said it has never happened to you after a trillion intercontinental flights and be like “welp first time for everything.” In that regard I am a trailblazer.
I will say I don’t count splatters in the cap. However I am also a proud owner of several stained shirts after my ink bottles spilled in my suitcase <3
My brand new TWSBI mini vac-filler leaked on a plane (with the valve closed). Not a ton, but enough to permanently stain a lovely pen case and give me inky fingers for awhile. (Of course, I would normally have put a full pen in a plastic bag, but I was overconfident, because vac-filler!)
Well, this makes me feel better
The teamwork option got me. 😂 Thank you for this, I now feel completely prepared for any plane inkmergency
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I have been known to confidently, snootily comment on various Reddit threads that I've never had a fountain pen leak on me mid-flight, and to date, that remains true. Even during transpacific and transatlantic long-hauls! Of course, I never use them *in-flight*, so that helps.
But ah, the higher you go, the farther you have to fall. After a flight home from Italy last June, three days after arrival, I took out my new Opus 88 demonstrator -- the kind with the shut-off valve, which I had kept shut off throughout the flight home, I swear -- and it merrily squirted what seemed like an entire gallon of the bluest ink all over both hands. High capacity barrel indeed. How it seeped onto my left hand -- which hadn't even touched it -- I'll never know, but I suspect it was so angry at the change in air pressure upon reaching land that the mighty tantrum it threw would spare no bare skin within five feet of it.