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Old 29th Aug 2021, 03:18
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Have to wonder what impact the de-ice/anti ice equipment would have too.
Depends what they use;

Heat elements, goodbye batteries.

Fluid type like cirrus, possible for the short ranged nature of them.

Or, like new Russian aircraft they could go Electro-Mechanical Expulsion Deicing, which can be fitted to all surfaces and runs off a 9v battery. Western tech are slow with it because they don't want to pay for the Russian patents on it, they had offered it as a retrofit for SAAB 340 aircraft, the SAAB kit dropped the weight of deicing system by about 90%. The reason it wasn't adapted 'Russian technology is not accepted by the west'. NASA tried to bridge the technology by making a hybrid boot that combines heat and EMED, but this has issues with with run back due to having a heat component.
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