NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data

On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACAs new Icing Research Tunnel IRT to study inflight ice buildup. Since that first run at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory now NASAs Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, the facility 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/cente...
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