[TowerTalk] ++ Fwd: KYTV, Channel 3 - Springfield, MO - Television tower top...

[Pete Smith]

At 09:03 AM 12/19/01 -0500, Bill Coleman wrote:
...
>If it did, it would have one rather important application -- AIRCRAFT!
>
>Airframe icing is a powerful and deadly menace. Airliners have extensive 
>internal equipment to prevent ice from forming on the wings and tail 
>surfaces. Smaller aircraft are even more subsceptable, since they 
>typically do not fly above the icing levels as the larger jets do.
>
>If there were some kind of paint or other coating that would prevent ice 
>from forming, there would be no need for de-ice boots, jet engine bleed 
>air, or ground-based deicing of aircraft.

The radome material requires recoating once a year under Arctic conditions.
 Imagine how briefly the stuff would last on the surface of a jet
aircraft...

73, Pete N4ZR
www.qsl.net/n4zr





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