We don't call it "100-mile-an-hour" tape for nuthin'

So, you're an Alaskan who loves to fish.

You fly out for a day of fishing and it's so good that you leave that hot-spot just before dark, land at your little outpost cabin and hurriedly unpack everything before heading to bed for the night.

During the night, you hear a ruckus and look out but can't see much but know it can't be good.

In the morning you see that is really ISN'T good.

A bear has smelled fish in your plane and has determined he's gonna find it.

Aren't you sorry you didn't clean things up a bit better the night before?

Why he bit your tires is a mystery, but bears love biting plastic and rubber for some reason.

This is where the expertise of rebuilding an airplane using cellophane and duct tape comes in.

After replacing the punctured tires, you start re-securing the vertical tension:

Then you layer horizontal strips to make it airworthy:

Then you re-lay the vertical strips and hope she sticks!

(It really does hold up while flying 80-knots, btw.

We really do call it "hundred-mile-an-hour tape" for a reason!)