De-icing Mods: Increasing Utility

We buy our airplanes for their ability to get us places. De-icing equipment ups their game, but nothing makes our machines all-weather birds.

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Rick Durden
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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.  That’s why we buy any airplane when we don’t do it purely for fun. We want to go places, we want to go fast and we want to go when we want to go.  We buy speed. We work our whatsis off to get an instrument rating and pay tens […]
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