Diversions

Published: Sat 15 January 2022
Updated: Thu 24 September 2026

tags: diversions

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

aviation weather coloring page From aviationweather.gov

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 ntrl.ntis.gov.
  • 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 ntrl.ntis.gov
  • Werner, J. B., Ice Protection Investigation for Advanced Rotary-Wing Aircraft. US Army Air Mobility Research and Development Laboratory, 1973. ntrl.ntis.gov

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