Diversions

Published: Sat 15 January 2022
Updated: Tue 01 October 2024

tags: diversions

Four cartoon depictions of aircraft in icing. 
The individual images are described in the link below.
Four Instructive Illustrations.

Diversions can take us into the post-NACA era of aircraft icing, with perhaps more freewheeling reviews.

The Greatest Thing That You Have (Probably) Never Read: AC 00-6A

The Greatest Thing That You Have (Probably) Never Read: 1969 Aircraft Ice Protection Report of Symposium

The Greatest Thing That You Have (Probably) Never Read: Wilder, Ramon W.: "Techniques used to determine Artificial Ice Shapes and Ice Shedding, Characteristics of Unprotected Airfoil Surfaces"

A Brief Digression on Units

Instructive Illustrations

Out-Sourcing My Work to ChatGPT and DALL-E ;)

Candidates (not yet reviewed):

  • Green, Steven D.: Inflight Icing Education Objectives for Air Carrier Pilots, AIAA 2003-21, 2003. http://www.flightopsresearch.org/data/files/aiaa2003-21.pdf.
  • NACA Conference on Aircraft Ice Prevention A Compilation of Papers Presented by NACA Staff Members. 6505/NACA-1947/8, 1947.
    This is available at DTIC.
  • Project Cirrus, Final Report, 1948
  • Mazin, I. P., 1957: The Physical Principles of Aircraft Icing (in Russian). Gidrometeoizdat, 120 pp.
    A translation to English is available at DTIC
  • Werner, J. B. Ice Protection Investigation for Advanced Rotary-Wing Aircraft. US Army Air Mobility Research and Development Laboratory, 1973. apps.dtic.mil

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