Studies of aircraft icing due to clouds consisting of individual droplets 10 times larger than those normally found in icing conditions are being carried out by members of the NASA Lewis Research Center's Icing Technology Branch. When encountered by an aircraft in freezing conditions, clouds consisting of large water droplets have a significantly different effect than those with normal droplets. A large-water-droplet cloud has been suggested as the cause of a commuter airplane accident in the late fall of 1994. As a result, studies of what happens to aircraft flying in these rare, but potentially very hazardous, conditions have been reemphasized.


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    Title :

    Aircraft Ice Accretion Due to Large-Droplet Icing Clouds


    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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