Helicopter Icing/Freezing Rain pictures

[Hueymeister]

There was some scary pictures of helicopters getting all iced up on line a few years back, but I can no longer find them. Putting together a quick powerpoint and need some gory icing pictures. There was one of a Lynx on the ground in ?Germany? that had been caught outside in freezing rain. Can anyone help?

[206 jock]

There was a Sea King back in 2006.

Some pics here (http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1104)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41395000/jpg/_41395632_seaking416300.jpg

[GoodGrief]

He is looking for that Alouette/Lama picture...

[sycamore]

PM for you,Huey...

[Thomas coupling]

http://aerosociety.com/assets/images/wordpress/aerospace-insight/files/2012/08/Bravo-November-of-RAF-during-icing-trials-web-202x250.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQet4CMCFyT_dtfVLsg3XYiD2uU6cxzQ_Qf6H9H_6e CttZjhU3-jw

[Hueymeister]

Thanks Thomas..lovely icing on the cup cake!

[helonorth]

http://s24.postimg.org/615e3qo79/2190_1.jpg

Good story to go with it:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/scientists-endure-nights-mountaintop-perch

[John Eacott]

http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/data/media/9/helicopter-with-ice_353.jpg

Gazelle, Wasp,Wessex & AH-56 trials photos here, (http://www.pprune.org/5523181-post48.html) from 'What are Icing Conditions?' (http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/405282-what-icing-conditions.html)

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3362-1/icing+2.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3364-1/icing+3.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3366-1/icing+4.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3368-1/icing+5+cheyenne.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3370-1/icing+7.jpg


http://image.slidesharecdn.com/icing-copy-150630115025-lva1-app6891/95/helicopter-icing-in-greek-language-1-638.jpg?cb=1435848693


https://www.tc.gc.ca/media/images/ca-publications/air-intakes.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/2192-1/BK117+at+Dinner+Plain+behind+Eacottage+03.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3360-1/icing+1.jpg

[Thomas coupling]

Hueymeister:

Its supposed to be a "helix" and "icing"...get it? [Obviously not :ugh:].

Sometimes I despair..............

[ShyTorque]

I remember seeing a head on photo of an 18 Sqn Wessex which was covered in a very thick layer of rain ice (three or four inches thick) It was being used for USL training at Junkers farm, RAF Gutersloh, which is within the airfield boundary, when the heavy rain began to fall. The ice built up so quickly that the aircraft didn't make it back across the airfield to dispersal; it was too heavy!

The photo appeared on the front cover of "Air Clues" in the early 1980s if I recall correctly (might actually have been the cover of the incident report).

The photos of icing trials I've seen were nowhere near as exciting!

I was later based at Gut and experienced rain ice there myself, thankfully not in the air. Again, it was so severe that the weight of it on the local trees caused large boughs to snap off and some paths around the base had to be closed for safety.

Very scary stuff, that image has stayed in my mind ever since and I have in the past cancelled all flying on the thankfully few days rain ice is forecast to occur and in one case successfully persuaded another chief pilot to do the same.

Unfortunately, I don't have the relevant photo of the Wessex but this might jog the memory of someone who has access to it.

[MightyGem]

There was one of a Lynx on the ground in ?Germany?
Yes, I was there at the time. Sadly I don't have the picture.

[Hueymeister]

Thomas..it was tenuous, but you are clearly a clever chap..unlike me...but thank you anyway...:}:ok:

[gsa]

This the one your after? No idea where it was or who took it.

http://www.pprune.org/members/144267-gsa-albums-rotary-picture29-lynxice.jpg

[Hueymeister]

Just the one, thank you!

[Stanwell]

John Eacott,
Pic #4 of your post:
I've not seen anything quite like that before. Can you 'caption' it for me?

[albatross]

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/midcanada/8c9fc28a.jpg

5 minutes in ice fog - landed with full throttle and decreasing RPM - lightly loaded Bell 47G4A.