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Is it Duct Tape, or Duck Tape?
There is a Duck brand and that is what it's commonly called but the proper is DUCT as in Heating and Air Conditioning DUCTWORK, which was its original use and still is. Ductwork was wrapped with vinyl backed insulation which is 4' wide. It is used to tape them together so as not to have a bare spot and hence condensation.
We used to call it 500 MPH tape in the USAF.
There are a number of histories on the material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
and
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ducttape.htm
for example.
My question was more on the line of what will AB call it when the have to resort to it for the latches.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
and
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ducttape.htm
for example.
My question was more on the line of what will AB call it when the have to resort to it for the latches.
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LOL
Didn't they long ago come up with a latch problem and supposedly make the checking of it as part of the pre flight walkaround?
