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Jeff7

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I might be just a regular non-scientist person, but three guys (minimum) and five years of work seems like a looooong time to develop this.
Yeah, most people have been building them in their garages. You never noticed?



(Nature had hundreds of millions of years to work out this sort of thing. I think we're doing alright after only a few decades on the job.)
 

Thebobo

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clamum

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Damn. When I first saw that, I couldn't tell what I was looking at. He looked . . . sort of deformed. I had to read the caption before it made sense. Guess I need to wear my glasses more often. :whiste:
lol, same here. I thought, "Jeez his face looks fucked up. Maybe it's due to the big tongue..." then I leaned forward and looked closer and realized I was looking at his tongue. Haha. Funny picture though. :awe:
 

mikeford

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The guy is using duct tape to repair an aircraft. Strangely not the scariest thing I've seen when I worked at an airport back in 2004.

Doesn't look like a repair. There is a line you can see from previous tape, its more likely a normal procedure to seal and enhance airflow. Friends of mine that do the 200 mph open road racing tape all the seams for the same reason.
 

xBiffx

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Like has been posted, it isn't duct tape. Using that tape doesn't mean it's a repair. Only an idiot thinks duct tape is used to "repair" a jet engine.
 

Skel

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Doesn't look like a repair. There is a line you can see from previous tape, its more likely a normal procedure to seal and enhance airflow. Friends of mine that do the 200 mph open road racing tape all the seams for the same reason.

Thread drift.. Looks like one to me. I can't say how common it is, but I can say I never once saw tape up anything for speed when I worked at Sky Harbor in Phoenix. I did see that tape busted out when they were repairing small tears that weren't going to cause the plane to fall out of the sky. I was told that even then it was a temporary measure until they can service it. I'm not saying your wrong, but personally I think it's a repair that they're redoing. The crap most airlines pull on their planes freak me out to the point that I won't ever fly sober again.