To: Nick
Several years ago I read about an anti icing or de icing system that used mechanical shock to dislodge the ice from the blades. It was not an application of heat to debond the ice from the blade but a magnetostrictive force that physically altered the surface of the blade, which broke the bond between the ice and the blade skin. The magnetostrictiove force was generated by an electrical charge that would change the shape of the blade and is the same principle used in some ultrasonic cleaners. Was this type of system ever considered on the S-92 or later Blackhawks?