The NTSB Examines The Other Side of Ice The NTSB has again addressed the other side of icing -- airborne accumulation. In last week's Air Safety Week (Feb. 26 issue) we addressed the fatal consequences of attempting takeoff with an upper wing surface roughened by hoar frost - see "At the Leading Edge of Aviation". In that article we advocated leading-edge flaps (generally known as slats) as one means of avoiding the "airborne into the stall" rotation - and we…
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