Anti-icing systems are designed to prevent ice accumulation on critical aircraft components and are typically activated proactively before or upon entering icing conditions. Various aircraft systems, ...

In the 1930s, to safely collect data on new de-icing equipment under real icing conditions, NACA needed an aircraft resistant to icing. Lewis Rodert, who led NACA icing research from 1936 to 1945, ...

Ice formation on propeller blades or aircraft wings can cause major problems. It can limit flight time, increase costs and pose safety and environmental risks. That is why researchers at SINTEF have ...

Aircraft icing poses diverse threats beyond altered aerodynamics, including engine flameouts from induction blockage, critical instrument and autopilot failures due to pitot tube icing, and unintended ...

This figure shows the comparison of the spatial distributions of the time-averaged flow field before and after drooping the leading edge in the form of u-velocity sections. With the drooping leading ...

Icing has emerged as a primary line of inquiry into the fatal Voepass ATR 72-500 crash near Sao Paulo, during which the aircraft slowed, stalled and entered a flat spin from which the crew did not ...

United Aircraft is to undertake natural icing tests on three new aircraft models, with prototypes being flown to Arkhangelsk in northern Russia. The Yakovlev SJ-100 and MC-21-310 have been sent to the ...