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Why airliners carry duct tape
« on: August 14, 2021, 11:46:36 AM »
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2021, 11:48:01 AM »
Quote from: MillCreek on August 14, 2021, 11:46:36 AM

Duct tape.  Is there anything it can't do?

Yes, ducts. It sucks for ducts.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2021, 02:22:49 PM »
Duct tape, aka The Force.  It has a light side, it has a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2021, 04:00:17 PM »
Don't use gorilla tape, that would be racist.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2021, 04:16:31 PM »
Probably better than zip ties.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2021, 07:56:59 PM »
Also helpful when the wings start to come off.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2021, 04:47:54 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 14, 2021, 11:48:01 AM
Yes, ducts. It sucks for ducts.

Because it's duck tape, not duct tape. Duck, as in originally made with cotton duck material.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2021, 04:54:08 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on August 16, 2021, 04:47:54 PM
Because it's duck tape, not duct tape. Duck, as in originally made with cotton duck material.

Yep, and it been around longer than many may think.
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2021, 04:56:56 PM »
Quote from: cordex on August 15, 2021, 07:56:59 PM
Also helpful when the wings start to come off.

That is closer to the truth than you would imagine! Well, maybe not the entire wing but parts of it for sure.


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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2021, 05:01:07 PM »
Caused that plane crash where an attendant failed to remove it from some altitude sensor ports after the plane had been cleaned.  Pilot missed that in his walkaround.

Kerplunk into the Pacific.  Seventy killed.

Dangerous stuff.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/nov/05/duct-taped-sensors-led-to-plane-crash/

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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2021, 05:07:08 PM »
Quote from: BobR on August 16, 2021, 04:56:56 PM
That is closer to the truth than you would imagine! Well, maybe not the entire wing but parts of it for sure.


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The actual in the operator's manual fix for cracks and stuff in the RQ-20 (and I'm sure other smaller drones) was gaffer's tape. The ones I trained on at Avon Park were like 50% tape.  =D
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Re: Why airliners carry duct tape
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2021, 05:23:44 PM »
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