Hercules In Severe Icing - Photo

[flipster]

Peeps,

I remember a photo, taken in early 90s I think, of a Herc on the ground at Goose Bay or Gander that resembled a large grey and green icicle. The ac had encountered severe airframe icing on approach that had almost overwhelmed the ac's de/anti-icing systems. The picture was used for various FS posters etc - anyone got a copy?

Furthermore, does anyone remember the details of the event?

PM me if req'd

TVM
Flip

[OmegaV6]

If its the one I'm thinking of .. there used to be a copy on the noticeboard in the K Sim Crewroom ... perhaps a current K person could check for you ...

[Top Bunk Tester]

Photo was taken by Uncle Fester, an ex 30 Sqn Capt, who occaisionally posts here. Try a PM to him. Believe the photo was taken in Gander.

TBT

[GrumpyandOld]

It was Gander and I was there. There were 2 Hercs in that night - I was on the other one. We both landed within minutes of each other. The thing I can remember to this day was the high power setting that was required to maintain speed on the approach. An overshoot would have been interesting. The ice build-up was incredibly quick and very thick. The extra weight alone doesn't bear thinking about let alone the loss of lift.

I've had a look through my log book to try to pin down a date. Don't hold me to this but 8 March 1991 looks a likely suspect; however, Gander features a number of times during many winters! My memory is also awful when working out years as my good lady will testify each and every wedding anniversary.

[vernon99]

Seem to recall reading about it somewhere, I am sure there was an article and photos about the incident in that well read magazine Air Clues? Anyone sad enough to have a collection to look back through:eek:

And what happened to Air Miss?

[VictorPilot]

Do you mean Suzi from the Flight Safety organisation who featured in posters and calandars??

[BeeBopp]

I remember this being reported on in Air Clues in the early nineties, I did a google search for it today after a serious icing event and this thread came up though no photos were ever posted.

In the Air Clues report I read there were photos of the Hercules after landing and the amount of ice on it was truly shocking.

Does anyone have a link or photos relating to this ?

[Sloppy Link]

Related, there was a good phot of a Lynx in BAOR that had been left out overnight in freezing rain that bought home the point.

[NickB]

Blimey - it really was severe - pic here:

https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2055072036