Icing!!!

[Dragger of Tail]

My employer is making a television programme about the effects of icing, and extreme weather on aircraft. Could anyone suggest a source of video and still photographs of ice forming on wings?

[Tail Plane]

Try the Met Office at Bracknell. Some of the books they produce have some excellent photos in them so I guess they'll have the originals.

[little red train]

NASA Do their very best to crash aircraft, and keep very extensive data, thier library at Kenedy Space Center FL, has teamd up with a large media group to aid distrobution. I remeber reading a paper specifically on tail icing and its very worrying consiquences.

[criticalmass]

Try the NTSB website, they probably have tomes on aircraft icing and the consequences. All very depressing reading, too, I suspect.

"icing (n): a fondant-like mixture of sugar, artificial colouring and cornflour which has the additional property of being able to make aircraft crash."

[pigboat]

Try the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center in CLE, <A HREF="http://www.grc.nasa.gov/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.grc.nasa.gov/</A> After Roselawn and Detroit, they did iceing trials using a Twotter. The resulting video is excellent. It covers the various types of ice, severity, pitch and roll upset and recovery and other goodies. If the video is not available from NASA itself, you should be able to borrow it from the UK equivalent of our Regional Aviation Safety Officer.

[Dragger of Tail]

Thank you very much chaps, very useful.

[HugMonster]

Lots of useful stuff around on the effects of icing - but anyone know where I can find anything on the effects of icing and marzipan? :)

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