Funny... all those years in maintenance and I've never heard that 
before.  Musta been a term that was used in the fighter community.  I 
mostly worked heavies,  and we definitely had a different vocabulary 
than the pointy-noses dudes!

73,

Mike
WM4B


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM , Kris Kirby wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Mike Besemer (WM4B) wrote:
>> Hmmmm? wonder when it became ?Queer Tape??  For the 24 years I was 
>> in, it was F-4 tape.  (Anybody who ever worked F-4?s knows why!)
>>
>> I still work for the Air Force? I?ll have to ask some of the Spark 
>> Chaser
>> and Pointy Heads!
>
> F-4 tape! That's the stuff. As far as I'm aware, it was called Queer 
> Tape as of about 30 years ago. ;-)
>
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
> Disinformation Analyst

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