Roller Ball Pens And Airplanes

[Charles Skinner]

Do rollerball pens tend to leak while in an airplane, like real fourntains pens sometime do?

 

C.

[523]

Hello Charles,

 

I always fly with at least 1 rollerball (Graf von Faber Castell or Montblanc) and have never had a leak. I keep them with me in the cabin never checked in. I have also used them in flight without any problems.

[Keyless Works]

I have had a roller ball explode on me while flying a small Cessna but never in a pressurized commercial plane.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

It really depends, but rollerballs that use a wick to store ink seem to be more unaffected than rollerballs that use liquid ink in a reservoir. I had a professor who liked rollerballs who would routinely get green fingers and blots all over our homework whenever she went traveling on a plane. She used a number of liquid ink rollerballs, and the more empty they were, the more ink they would spit. I also knew a few people who liked Parker rollerballs but would get ink everywhere whenever they flew.

 

For the most part, the same rules apply to rollerballs and fountain pens. When traveling, try to make sure the pen is nearly full, and point the tip up when the pen is not being used or when altitude changes.

 

Dillon

[orfew]

I have flown numerous times with different MB rollerballs and have never had a problem.

[Dillo]

If I remember correctly, the MB rollerballs use the wick type system, so they don't tend to leak, so you don't need to worry about them too much. Interestingly enough, my uncle hates them, so he puts his favorite Japanese roller refill into his MB rollerballs.

 

Dillon

[Nek]

I have never had a problem with flying with my Rollerball pens. I never take Fountain pens on my flights though.

[sharonspens]

Never had a problem with a RB on a flight. That includes my Visconti EcoRoller, which I will sometimes take along in lieu of flying with an FB.

 

Sharon in Indiana