[jeffgrant]

For years my dad was an aircraft maintenance engineer in Northern Canada (Northwest Territories, etc, working on twin otters, beavers, etc), and has a ton of stories and pics similar.

One of his roles was to fly in to a "crash" site where he'd fix the disabled plane or helicopter, and then fly it back to base for proper repairs.

He used to call it "100 mph tape", for self-evident reasons.

The only real "code brown" was when they had to reclassify it from 110 mph tape to 100 mph tape, mid-flight.

Some of his stories sounded like complete fabrications, until he whipped out the 35mm slides and show us the pics.