The article focuses on anti-icing systems, differentiating them from de-icing systems by defining anti-icing as procedures or systems designed to prevent ice formation on aircraft surfaces. It details ...

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 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says it will require a fix for a new 737 MAX design problem discovered by Boeing that, although it’s a remote possibility, could theoretically disable the jet’s ...

By Gabriel Araujo and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, July 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian air accident investigators said on Thursday that a buildup of ice, failures in the aircraft's de-icing system, ...