Research To Improve Icing Detection Moves Toward Testing

Hybrid ice detection system will combine multiple sensing techniques.
Credit: DLR
A European Union-funded research project to improve aircraft ice protection is preparing upgraded wind tunnels for testing of a hybrid system capable of detecting icing caused by supercooled large droplets (SLD). In certain weather conditions, water droplets with diameters greater than 50 microns...
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