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12-21-2009, 07:41 AM #1Registered User
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Best duct tape story ever
No way I will get into one of those crop dusters, never mind one being held together by tape. Not sure how true the story is, it came in an email.
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 radioed another pilot to 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!
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12-21-2009, 07:44 AM #2Moderator
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Ummm yeah. I think I will pass.
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12-21-2009, 07:55 AM #3Registered User
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Sure, no problem! You just have to use the green "100 mph" duct tape.
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12-21-2009, 08:23 AM #4NES Member
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Considering the other things I've seen done with duct tape, I'd get into it. I wouldn't expect it to work for more than a thousand miles, but that's plenty to get home.
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12-21-2009, 08:30 AM #5NES Member
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that aircraft has a top speed of 97 knts, so 100mph tape is fine as long as the PIC doesn't push it.
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12-21-2009, 08:39 AM #6NES Member
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I'd get in. It would probably fly fine with the hole, the canvas is just for comfort.
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12-21-2009, 09:00 AM #7NES Member
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duct tape is like the force.
There is a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.
Michael Chludenski
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12-21-2009, 09:28 AM #8NES Member
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Bored?
Make a duct tape wallet!
http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/index.php"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1/20/1961. Oh, the irony!
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12-21-2009, 09:32 AM #9NES Member
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Hell, looks better than the plane I used to jump out of....
While I would love to see pictures of this plane actually in the air to believe it fully, I would think this is a plausible story...."Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin
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12-21-2009, 09:49 AM #10NES Member
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necessity is a mother!
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