Sunday Mailbag - Airplane Safe Pens?

Pen Addict reader Mark sent me the following email concerning pens that are airplane safe:

I've been victim to non airplane-safe pens more times than I'd like to count (damn you, otherwise awesome Pilot Precise V5!). I see that some pens are now listed as "Airplane Safe", which is awesome, but I don't travel quite enough to make "airplane safe" a principal criteria when buying a pen. I'd rather dip into my current stash and pick out one likely to survive the trip to Vegas without covering my Sudoku solving fingers in a lovely but permanent shade of blue. Do you have any general guidelines as to which pens work well in planes, or which types (for instance, finer point pens, gel vs. liquid, etc.)?

Since I only fly about once every five years or so, I thought I would turn to the readers who travel more frequently than I to help Mark out.  What are your favorite airplane safe pens?

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-- Parker 61  (Fountain Pen Restoration)

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-- Solving Ink Flow Issues in Refillable Rollerball Pens  (Writer's Bloc Blog)

-- A few words on J. Herbin Fountain Pen Inks  (Spiritual Evolution of the Bean)

-- J. Herbin Café Des Îles  (An Inkophile's Blog)

Review: Pilot VBall RT 0.7mm Blue

This is a rare class of pens folks.  Rare in the fact that my wife put in a special request for me to find one for her.  I gave her a few of my 0.5mm black VBall RT pens to take to work and test out, and she liked them a lot.  She came home and said she wanted this pen in 0.7mm and in blue, and I had noticed that Jetpens had started carrying them, so off to order I went.  She was excited to get them, and of course I redirected one temporarily into my hands for review.

I am on record as loving the 0.5mm black model - in fact, it is probably my most frequently used non-gel ink pen.  I keep one resting on my keyboard at work at all times so I have something nice to grab and go if the need arises.  The 0.7mm is just as nice, and the only difference - drumroll please - is that it is wider.  This pen falls into that category of pens that you can recommend to anyone and there is a good chance they will like it.  The Pilot VBall is as safe as they come.

Click Here for the XL review.