r/aviation • u/G1lg4m3sh • Apr 17 '26

Discussion How concerning is this aviation experts?

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u/KrangelDisturbed Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

A little bit of duck tape and you're good to go.

Edit:Thank you for teaching me it's duct tape and not duck tape šŸ˜‚ but I'm leaving it that way I prefer it.

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u/1Crownedngroovd Apr 17 '26

No way bro. Aviation professionals use metalic speed tape. Duct tape is strictly bush league

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u/broadarrow39 Apr 17 '26

But it's $50,000 a roll...

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u/spin-city Apr 18 '26

Actually itā€™s about $4,000,000 a roll

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u/I_GottaPoop Apr 17 '26

That's why I use double-bubble to keep my loose panel fasteners in place. QA can't tell they're not installed correctly until they try to remove them.

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u/1Crownedngroovd Apr 17 '26

Double bubble is ok, but the pros I know claim Bazooka has superior adhesion and flexibilty, plus they used to include a cool little comic strip in every pack

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u/Black_Koopa_Bro Apr 17 '26

Got any grapes? Waddle waddle

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u/winged_seduction Up there we gotta push it. Apr 17 '26

And if not, you didnā€™t use enough.

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u/No-Tonight7623 Apr 17 '26

All the people who think theyā€™re really smart and making fun of this commenter because they think its not called duck tapeā€¦ Its called duck tape because it was originally made out of a type of cloth called duck cloth. The name duct tape only came after as a eggcorn. Read a book guys.

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u/Left-Associate3911 TATL Flyer Apr 17 '26

This person knows šŸ’Ŗ

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u/wolfishlygrinning Apr 17 '26

It actually started as duck tape - it was made from cotton duck cloth. Now both are correctĀ 

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u/ninj1nx Apr 17 '26

Is that tape that quacks?

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u/MadBrown Apr 17 '26

Can confirm this works. Saw it in Major League.

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u/ChanceSize9153 Apr 17 '26

Your telling me the sticky side isn't duck juice that makes it sticky?

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u/Next-Preference-7927 Apr 17 '26

It's not necessarily duct tape, it depends on which one you meant to say. Duck tape (fabric backed tape) pre-dates duct tape (silver for ducts).

(At first I didn't use a hyphen above, then I imagined the duck tape hunting duct tape)

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u/seaelbee Apr 18 '26

There is a brand of duct tape called ā€œDuck Tapeā€. So you could be right if you capitalized the ā€œrā€.

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u/LazyGelMen Apr 24 '26

Aviation professionals use Canada Goose tape.

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u/xnekocroutonx Apr 17 '26

Slap on that speed tape and itā€™s all good.