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.
Red Green Airlines.
It keeps the rain out.
“You guys been flyin’ t’ Afghaniraq again?”
I was going to comment “Good to see ValuJet flying again”...then I saw it was Air New Zealand.
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.
most likely used to cover peeling paint…
Perhaps they might want to consider PAINTING THE PEELING PAINT…😮
Will that be smoking, non-smoking or burnt-beyond-recognition?
(old Delta airlines quip)
I only get worried on the appearance of zip ties.
Where’s the bubble gum and baling twine?
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.
That there looks like your high speed nascar duct tape.
He’s good to go until the next yellow