From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 17:23:38 -0600, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:   
      
   > 100 mph?  I thought that was strictly a military thing.   
      
   Various reference sources claim that name originates from the Vietnam   
   War, because the tape was used for fixing helicopter rotor blades, and   
   had to withstand the blades whirling around at that speed without   
   coming apart.   
      
   That doesn’t make sense to me. Rotor blade tips move faster than that   
   -- in fact, in normal flight, they regularly exceed the speed of sound   
   at some point in the rotation, which is where that clattering noise   
   comes from: it’s a sonic boom.   
      
   And nobody would trust anything as crude as duck tape in anything as   
   safety-critical as a high-stress connection which is essential for   
   ensuring an aircraft stays in the air ...   
      
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