Best Duct Tape Story Ever

[specktacklure]

During a private "fly-in" fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler and bait in the plane. And a bear smelled it.

This is what he did to the plane.

The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new tires, 3 cases of duct tape, and a supply of sheet plastic...

He patched the plane together, and FLEW IT HOME !



Duct Tape ?

Never Leave Home Without It

[satdoc1]

Sure does look like some of DonDon's handy work all right!

[Lowellhturner]

To save weight going to the Moon, NASA briefly considered "deleting' the military grade duct tape from the Apollo missions, reasoning "WHAT on a multi million dollar space craft can you possible "fix' with it ?" WITHOUT it, Apollo 13 very likely WOULD NOT have returned with the crew alive. At least to the end of the Space Shuttle program it was a "REQUIRED" item on every flight...

[GitDaGrease]

This pilot has been watching Myth Busters wayyyyy tooooo much!!!

[Lowellhturner]

In the USN during the 1980`s due to accusations of over charging the Navy, we ran low on quick disconnect panel fasteners. An OLD line chief said the same thing happened in Viet Nam, and the "Phantom II" jet fighter squadron he was with resorted to putting 2 good quick release fasteners on each leading edge of the panels, then VERY THOROUGHLY cleaning the painted surfaces and covering the seam lines with military grade duct tape with the corners carefully rounded and 2 small holes punched into the duct tape on the seam line to equalize the air pressure, then hit briefly with a heat gun. Our guinie pig F-14 "Tomcat" took the catapult shot and went supersonic with a chase plane to check it out. He also did several manouvers; ALL the panels AMAZINGLY stayed attached ! We and every other squadron aboard ship flew that way for about 2 months; duct tape became a PRECIOUS commodity...

[DRPEPPER]

I used to never go racing without it.
DP

[specktacklure]

I used to never go racing without it.
DP

every race team needs some 200 mph tape in their toolbox.

My favorite use for duct tape is keep someone quiet that won't shut up
always remember = silence is golden & duct tape is silver

[Stinkfinger]

My father was an engineer that helped design and build the AstroDome in Houston, Texas in the early 60's. It was a great wonder at the time, but over the years they began to notice the ceiling would sag a bit after a heavy snow. Finally, in the mid 80's, we had the Blizzard of 85 and there was six feet of snow accumlated on the dome. The ceiling sagged so much that the players could reach up and touch it. This was a real problem you see for hitting anything other than a grounder caused a major ricochet of the baseball. So, they jacked the roof back up to it's original level, then went around to all the heavy metal beams, and duct-taped to reinforce the strength. It worked so well they just left it like that. Now, anyone doubting this piece of trivia, just come on down to the Oklahoma forum and you'll be treated to some really tall tales. Catching a 4 pound crappie in that forum happens every day. Cheers, Stink

[Lowellhturner]

"Googled" and found out that duct tape IS, by international "understanding", a "REQUIRED" item on the International Space Station! Gee, save 1 Apollo mission, and NASA is likely to drag you to Mars and back!