Thursday
Oct292009
Ursus arctos horribilis
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 12:00AM Patagonia's Fly Fishing marketing guru Bill Klyn forwarded us this pictorial.
A bear attacked this plane that had not been cleaned out after a long fishing trip. The pilot had 2 new tires, 3 cases of Duct Tape and several rolls of cellophane delivered then went about repairing the plane so he could fly it home.
They call it 100 mph tape for a reason.
tagged grizzly bear, photography in Photos
grizzly bear, photography in Photos
Reader Comments (12)
nice Magyver job!!!!!!
they dont call it 100 mph tape for nothing, really good do it yourselfing
I'm thinking the bear didn't want his meal to get away.
Fooking awesome!
Cool pictorial, there should be a duct tape hall of fame for this sort of thing.
Or a coffee table book, "Polish Chrome: 101 Uses."
Now thats a story of a lifetime.....to funny. Wonder how the plane handled after the fixes?
WOW!! I hope insurance covers all that damage. That bear tore that plane up! Great job with the duct tape!
Finally proof that i was right all along, you can fix everything with duct tape.
I'm wondering how many of us would accept the first duct tape ride. That would be brave.
Quick float plane story: I was fishing the Brooks River, surrounded by bears, when I realized I didn't know what time my plane would arrive to pick me up with the other passengers I'd arrived with. I went to the pickup spot and found no planes and no fellow passengers. I waited and waited and finally understood that the plane left without me.
A couple hours later a delivery plane arrived and I begged this gnarly Alaskan to take me back to King Salmon... in his rickety-ass two-seater. About 2,000 feet above Lake Illiamna I noticed the fuel gages both pegged on the E. Completely gone. I've since heard that most pilots fly by time and not fuel, but that was a shock to the system.
Cool post. Bears one, anglers/hunters zero.
greg
www.anglerstonic.com
"I'm wondering how many of us would accept the first duct tape ride."
You kiddin'? Hell, sign me up, right away. Of course, I'm a kook, but I know a little about airplanes, and that thing's just about guaranteed to get home.
That's righteously ingenious. God bless 'em.
neat
Real Alaskans know that duct tape is the shit and will fix anything from leaking waders to automobiles, and that the bear that did that damage must be made into a rug.