Introduction

The "Aircraft Icing Handbook" DOT/FAA/CT-88/8-1, 1991 apps.dtic.mil had a perhaps little known update in 1993: apps.dtic.mil.

Several errors and omissions were corrected in the update, so it is essential to consult the update.

As the update only include certain affected pages, it makes it difficult to read as there is much interruption paging back and forth between sources. Here, selected sections of the two sources are merged for easier reading.

The reproduction quality of the online sources is variable, and parts of the update are barely legible. Here, the text is used (not just scanned images of text). In some cases, I have included text of the equations.

Some readers may prefer the online web formatting over the pdf formatting. The figures are included inline, again to reduce paging back and forth. The cited references are also noted here. Links to online …

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