411A -
...any problems with tail icing?
No.....didn't worry about it with a heated stab.
If "your" de-activated 707 didn't have problems, maybe you were just lucky. Seems like even though Boeing built/sold more a/c, the DC-8 outlasted the 707.
And, as "Mansfield" said: "...the Douglas fellows probably knew something that did not encourage them to press for a similar de-activation."
OK.....I'm outta this discussion. You guys go fly your unheated tails but don't tell me that airfoils can't ice up under the right conditions and lead to fatal accidents like the Midway one. Most of us in/near that one ALL agree that tail ice brought that a/c down. In my write-up here on this Forum I mentioned the portion of the Accident Report that said that there wasn't any ice on the a/c because Charlie Fox Dog [Chicago Fire Department] said that when they got to the scene there wasn't any ice on the a/c. Well...DUH...the aircraft was ON FIRE !!
Good night.