Has anyone seen this picture?

[JaceTheAce]

Has anyone heard of this tape used for aircraft repair???

Taken from www.askthepilot.com:

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Question: Please tell me the following photograph, sent to me by a friend who swears he took the picture himself, is doctored.
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Response: I'm willing to bet the picture is not doctored. What you see is the perfectly safe and legal application of some heavy-duty aluminum bonding tape, called "speed tape" in the mechanic's lexicon. Depending on what a plane's maintenance manual stipulates -- according to the dictates of the FAA -- certain noncritical components can be temporarily patched with this material, embarrassing as it sometimes looks. It's extremely strong, durable, and able to expand and contract through an extreme range of temperatures.

Here you see speed tape covering a crack or some other superficial defect in a flap track fairing. That bullet-shaped fairing is just a cover, a streamlining shell, that conceals the tracks and hinges of the wing's trailing edge flaps.

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[Doug Taylor]

Looks legit! And I've seen stuff like that before.

[triplec76]

Yep, I've seen it too. I took a flight once years ago from CMH to CLE on an EMB-120 and it had duct tape on the pilot's side of the windscreen. I honestly didn't think much of it at the time, but if I saw it today I might pop my head in the cockpit and at least ask.

[I_Money]

Tape and Bubble gum works - ask any CFI.

[eeg]

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Tape and Bubble gum works - ask any CFI.

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Yes indeed, coming from an A/P (me ) Did that more than a few times on my Blackhawk back in the day. We also used duct tape on the rotor blades. Just as a temp. fix though. Stop drills also work very well on cracks.

God I miss that Helo...Those were the days!

[Mr_Creepy]

LOL most commuter aircraft are held together with speed tape!

Seriously, it's much stronger than duct tape - we used to call it "industrial strength duct tape" or Swan Tape: "duck" tape on steroids.

[Bandit_Driver]

Have to love that 200 MPH tape..

[PhotoPilot]

I once flew a plane with a window that was cracked, stop drilled, and the laced with wire to hold it together . . . there are plenty of interesting, but safe, temporary fixes out there!

From a photographic standpoint, if it was photoshopped, someone did a darn good job. See the way the light reflects off of the speed tape? The reflections conform perfectly to the shape of the fairing and the direction and intensity of the light. On top of that, the reflectance is variable from the surface of the fairing and is properly rendered. Most fakes are easy to spot due to errors in lighting angles or intensity. This one looks legit.

[USMCmech]

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there are plenty of interesting, but safe, temporary fixes out there!

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When I was in the Marines, I got to go to "Battle Damage Repair school".

I learned all the dirty tricks you can use to get and airplane flying when the bullets are too.

Examples:

Stiching plexiglass (as described above)

Jet A and Diesel are both kerosene (ship and ground turboshaft engines run on normal diesel)

Any fluid will service a hydraulic system (anybody need to go to the bathroom?)

The list goes on as far as your imagination.

[TheShortOne]

As an engineer I learned that you only need two things in this world. Duct Tape to make it stop and WD40 to make it go.

[jdflight]

They still haven't put a new window in there. We call her Frankenstein.

[jonnyb]

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They still haven't put a new window in there. We call her Frankenstein.

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Now that is freakin' funny.

[PhotoPilot]

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They still haven't put a new window in there. We call her Frankenstein.

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Geez! I thought that when they spent the dough to load a 430 into her panel, they would've stuck a new window in, too.

Let me guess: A 430 as Com 1/Nav 1, but the old dial-the-analog-number-in-the-window-no-flip-flop King Nav/Com is still the number 2? Should have known . . .