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A friend who pilots 747s for a living just facebooked these pictures of what he called "speed tape", also known as duct tape.
This is a Mesa airplane, he was a passenger when he took this, not a big confidence builder.
I’m sure that’s special duct tape and totally airworthy.
In WW2, 100mph tape was also known as Duck Tape, because of the cotton duck backing.
The real name was duct tape, and it was commonly used for fast and dirty aircraft repairs.
I'm sure today's stuff is better...
It is a little known fact that potential safety hazards due to duct tape can be compensated by generous use of WD40 in other parts of the device.
This is how we maintained our airplanes
