Apparatus and associated devices relate to a system for measuring a maximum size of super-cooled water droplets in a cloud atmosphere. The system includes a housing having a convex exterior surface on a forward end and having stabilizers projecting from an aft end. The system includes a gimballed mounting mechanism configured to attach the housing to an aircraft while permitting the housing to freely pitch and yaw with respect to the aircraft. When an airstream engages the stabilizers, the housing aligns with a direction of the engaging airstream. The system includes a sequence of indices on a corresponding sequence of ice-accretion regions of the convex exterior surface, each of the sequence of indices visible in the absence of ice accretion. The forward-most ice-free one of the sequence of indices is indicative of a maximum size of super-cooled water droplets.


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    Title :

    SUPER-COOLED WATER-DROPLET SIZE INDICATOR


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2018-04-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT / G01B MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS , Messen der Länge, der Dicke oder ähnlicher linearer Abmessungen



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