Posted on 10/02/2022 9:20:35 AM PDT by DFG
Duct tape on a plane initially thought to be holding its wing together has been revealed as having a far less questionable purpose.
The tape made for an alarming sight what was thought to be a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for Australian opera singer David Wakeham who last week shared a photo to Twitter, where it later went viral.
“When choosing your favourite airline, choose wisely. Profits before safety,” his post, which was also shared to Reddit, read.
While at the time it was joked the tape was used for “temporary repairs”, it has since been identified as commonly used “speed tape”, which was most likely used to cover peeling paint, according to CheckMate, a weekly fact checking newsletter from RMIT and ABC.
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Duct tape can fix anything except stupid.
And it can silence stupid.
It’s not “duct tape.” It’s speed tape, and it is authorized for temporary repairs on aircraft before permanent repairs can be made.
Better than gum, I suppose.
Great idea! Now, let’s apply it to Nordstream 1/2.
[actually, duct tape in of itself I’d think not a big problem, if it passes FAA temp repair muster, plus it would depend on what’s underneath that tape. The slipstream wind speeds are much reduced from airspeed near aircraft skin.]
Whatever that is for, it’s not the sort of thing you want to see when you look out the plane’s window.
Plus, whatever that tape is, some of it looks like it’s peeling off. having a piece of lose tape flapping around near a control surface while flying is probably not optimal. Not to mention a strip of that tape could peel off on takeoff and foul the runway.
Tired of drama queens on social media.
Duct tape can fix anything except stupid.
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I read the one thing you actually should *not* use duct tape for is ducts.
https://servicechampions.com/blog/why-duct-tape-should-never-be-used-on-ducts/
Red Green Airlines.
You win
It keeps the rain out.
That made me laugh.
“You guys been flyin’ t’ Afghaniraq again?”
Cloth duct tape isn't good because the adhesive softens when heated.
Aluminum duct tape is good to use on ducts because it's conformable and the operational temperature range is -40°F to 300°F.
I was going to comment “Good to see ValuJet flying again”...then I saw it was Air New Zealand.
Little tape on the wing ? No big deal.
The EPA and global organizations are constantly tampering with paint formulations to lower VOC’s. Many of today’s paints are both inferior and vastly more expensive than those of just ten years ago. It used to be that journalism would write several followup articles after digging into the possible root causes of a problem such as this. Now they write a single article in which they speculate, add in the ‘corporate response’ (which might even be true) then the entire problem gets memory-holed.
Get rid of AC ducts and use minisplits with NO ducts. It's easy to insulate the tubing from the compressor located outside to the air handler on an inside wall.
Plus minisplits are easy to install which gets rid of the huge installation costs.
most likely used to cover peeling paint…
Perhaps they might want to consider PAINTING THE PEELING PAINT…😮
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