About a week ago British tabloids ran all sorts of "TERROR IN THE SKIES" stories because someone snapped a photo of a maintenance crew applying speed tape[1] to

About a week ago British tabloids ran all sorts of "TERROR IN THE SKIES" stories because someone snapped a photo of a maintenance crew applying speed tape[1] to a plane, and thought they'd duct-taped a broken plane back together. Every so often someone posts a photo of a plane with a missing winglet and asks why it was allowed to fly when "the wing was broken" (missing a winglet will do nothing except decrease fuel efficiency a bit). Lots of really silly posts happen because people don't know much about airplanes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape