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De-icing Mods: Increasing Utility

Mixed icing on a wing leading edge with "horns" just starting to develop - significantly increasing drag and stall speed. NASA photo.

Utility.

It’s all about utility. 

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.