Donald Cook

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

A bearded, rather handsome young man, wearing a cold-weather coat, gloves, and ear protection. He is holding a hammer, ready to strike a test airfoil.
Making delicate adjustments in an icing wind tunnel.

Donald Cook has over 30 years experience at a major airplane manufacturer in several areas of aircraft icing, including:

  • Ice shape analysis (including computational fluid dynamics tool development)
  • Ice protection system design, test, analysis, and certification
    • wing anti-ice
    • engine anti-ice
    • air data probes
    • ice detection
  • Natural icing flight test
  • Icing wind tunnel test
  • Industry groups
  • Teaching classes on aircraft icing
  • Certification
  • Regulatory issues

BS Engineering Iowa State University
MS Engineering University of Wisconsin

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