Posted on 10/02/2022 9:20:35 AM PDT by DFG
Will that be smoking, non-smoking or burnt-beyond-recognition?
(old Delta airlines quip)
Hundred mile an hour tape? Doesn’t a airplane go faster than 100 mph?
I only get worried on the appearance of zip ties.
Everybody deserves their 15 minutes of fame, don't they?
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Where’s the bubble gum and baling twine?
Doesn’t give the passengers a sense of comfort.
Years ago, flying from Denver to California, I looked out the window and saw liquid, presumably fuel, spraying from the wing. Casually, I notified the flight attendant. She looked, and casually walked up to the flight deck. Soon the pilot came back and took a look. He told me “Don’t worry about it.” and returned to the flight deck. No one, on a full flight, noticed any of this. I watched it all the way to CA. It had the appearance of a garden nozzle type spray. No problem.
As someone earlier posted. If you have ever worked on airplanes, then you are very familiar with Speed Tape. How is it different and why is it used like it is? Speed tape is really a strip of thin aluminum alloy metal with a very tenacious and sticky backing. It’s very strong, like welding a thin metal patch over the damaged area. It’s an excellent and very safe temporary repair. It is far from Duct Tape in every way.
If I ever saw duct tape used in heating or cooling it was to hold together the insulation around the outside of the duct. In other words there was three to five inches of insulation between the tape and the tin of the duct.
That there looks like your high speed nascar duct tape.
He’s good to go until the next yellow
Former Army helicopter pilot here. We called it “100 miles per hour tape” for the obvious reason. Stuff was dynamite in stickiness and endurance. Covered bullet holes in the fuselage. Could be used on main rotor blades. Which means enduring speeds much faster than 100 mph.
“If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”
As long as the tape isn’t on the static ports..
1996..Aeroperu flight 603 a B757-200 crashed and all 70 people because of adhesive tape put on the static ports.
“Later investigation into the accident revealed that adhesive tape had been accidentally left over some or all of the static ports (on the underside of the fuselage) after the aircraft was cleaned and polished, eventually leading to the crash. Employee Eleuterio Chacaliaza had left the tape on by mistake.[15]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603
Hmmm...
Wouldn’t it would be more appropriate if they used Duck tape to repair or enhance wings...
Observed this many times flying out of CLT. Nothing to see here. Move along please.
Drama queens on this forum are just as bad. This thread is full of them.
Sub-freezing temps, we called it 10 mile/hour tape.
We had special green tape we called ordnance tape, or 300 mph tape used for several aircraft purposes.
Damn good stuff, way superior to civilian duct tape.
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