Ice Falls From Aircraft (possibly)

[Paracab]

From the media section of the Essex County Fire & Rescue website...

Incident No: 11969

Date: 28-06-2006

Time: 09:20

Details: Mystery object fell through roof

Address: Keswick Avenue Hullbridge

Attendance: 1 x Hadleigh

Firefighters were called after a woman heard an explosion in her roof at around 07.25 this morning. When crews arrived they found a large hole measuring approximately 3 ft in the roof of the house.

When firefighters investigated the loft they found were no obvious signs of what had caused the whole all they could see was a damp area on the insulation below the whole.

A neighbour had found a lump of ice on her lawn at around the same time leaving us to believe that the only thing that could have caused the noise and damage to the house would be a large piece of ice falling from a plane.

[tilewood]

When firefighters investigated the loft they found were no obvious signs of what had caused the whole all they could see was a damp area on the insulation below the whole.


Well do they mean the whole hole, or just part of the hole, or perhaps
the whole story about the hole is just a whole packs of lies?!! ;)

[Rainboe]

Yes....but what part of the plane did the 'large piece of ice' come from, and what colour was it? Please do not tell Mrs. Gladys Niceolady of 'Dunromin', Keswick Avenue, Hullbridge (wherever that is)- she'll faint.

It sounds like somewhere made to be under aeroplane flight paths.......aeroplanes with very full......washrooms...........

[selfin]

This is what they want to be using:

Thanks to an innovation from NASA’s Ames
Research Center, this danger could one day be eliminated.
Ames patented the Electro Expulsive Separation System
(EESS), which is now licensed to Ice Management Systems,
Inc. (IMS), of Temecula, California.

EESS is an aircraft ice removal system, appropriately
nicknamed the “ice zapper.” According to the principle
inventor, Leonard Haslim, “It pulverizes ice and removes
layers of ice as thin as frost or as thick as an inch of glaze.”
The EESS consists of layers of conductors encased in materials
that are bonded directly to the airframe structure. When
ice accumulates on the aircraft, an electric current is sent
through the conductors, causing them to pulse. Even though
the conductors move less than a twenty-thousandth of an
inch in just a millisecond, the movement is sufficient to
pulverize the ice. It is this highly accelerated motion that
shatters the ice into particles the size of table salt; too small to
be harmful to the aircraft.

http://technology.arc.nasa.gov/success/successfiles/CoolToolDeicing2001_p73.pdf

[OpsSix]

If you ever get a chance to read a CAA Occurence Report, look at the misc section at the back. People find blocks of blue ice, don't know what it is, report it to the police and keep it in their freezer as evidence :ugh:

[rodthesod]

And I thought all that blue stuff was going into chemtrails these days.:confused: