A pilot with extensive experience in icing conditions became complacent, believing he understood how to manage ice effectively. He unexpectedly encountered rapid and severe structural icing (forming ...

Do you give much thought to experiencing Ice Contaminated Tailplane Stall (ICTS) in your airplane? I didn’t think so. ICTS was a highly topical subject for pilots in the 1990s and 2000s but is not ...

Enhanced infrared satellite images are an under-utilized and effective tool for diagnosing structural icing, providing cloud top temperatures every 15 minutes, useful day and night, especially when ...

Icing can be a hazard for aircraft that fly in ubiquitous water or mixed phase clouds at temperatures below \(0^{\circ }\) C 1,2. There is evidence that about 10% of all fatal air carrier accidents ...

Lewis Rodert pioneered aircraft anti-icing research at NACA and developed one of the first successful thermal de-icing ...