Two days to install hi-speed tape??????? Are you kidding me? I have personally put tape on aircraft, and they flew out 30 minutes later, typical airline mechanic time. It must have been a government operation. Two days—what a joke. By the way, they did not use hi-speed tape; they used duct tape. I saw pictures of the repair. Having worked 19 years for a major airline, I do know the difference.
Took 3 days to fly in the guy and the pop rivit tool, hour 45 minutes drilling out the rivits to remove the pannel, 2 hours with the sheet metal brake and the whole punch to copy the pannel, another 2 days to get the correct rivits with the paperwork saying they were for aircraft, and one day for the vinal wrap to cover the patch in lue of paint. Could it have flow with 200mph tape, certainly, but the pilots wives deserve a better than average fix.
Something a 19 year old did in the blowing sand of Africa in 1943 with sheers and a hand powered rivit gun at 3am under light from a flashlight and a paintbrush all on a 20 foot ladder on a B-26 with about the same wing. you can fix aircraft in wartime conditions 12 times faster than civilians involved if no epoxy is involved.
It’s worse than that. Two days into the event, this happened, and they completely grounded the aircraft until full repairs could be made. WWII ground crew would be horrified, sickened at the namby-pambyness of it all.