9/18/2026

Hundred Mile an Hour Tape?


Driving over one of our local bridges recently, a horrible noise started. Sounded like a demon had landed on top of my car and was vigorously whipping the car. 

It might have been demonic attack, but the proximate cause he used involved the disintegration of the aerodynamic rubber dingus connecting my radio antenna to the car top sheet metal. In certain conditions (65 plus or minus MPH ground speed plus a stiff head- or cross-wind) created a vortex in which the now-too-flexible antenna would rapidly smack smack smack smack smack the top. 

Quick solution: bamboo skewers and Gorilla Tape. In the old days the Air Force used a bullet-hole patching tape that was, I think, a self-adhesive aluminum foil. The metal tape was commonly called Hundred Mile an Hour Tape (actually used far in excess of 100 MPH). Will the Gorilla Tape fix hold up? I hope so?  And it ought to -- we're only talking about going freeway speeds plus maybe a 40 mile an hour cross-wind off the port bow. 

We'll see!

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