A new type of aircraft icing detection system.

ABSTRACT: Ice accretion by the impact of supercooled water drops, or mixtures of these drops with ice, onto an aircraft in flight is a hazard referred to as icing. Aircraft certified to fly in icing conditions like airliners, currently have simplistic icing detection probes. Aircraft certification specifications recently developed in response to the discovery that ice accretion by the impact of supercooled large droplets (SLDs) has caused many aircraft accidents imply the need for an icing detection system (IDS) capable of discerning between ordinary icing conditions and the more hazardous SLD icing conditions. It is desirable that these new IDS be capable of measuring both the ice accretion onto the aircraft and the icing-hazard potential of the atmosphere around the aircraft. We report the develop

SUBMITTER: Renno NO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12835147 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature