Currently experimental aircraft icing research is severely hampered by limitations of ground icing simulation facilities. Existing icing facilities do not have the size, speed, altitude, and icing environment simulation capabilities to allow accurate studies to be made of icing problems occurring for high speed fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft. Use of the currently dormant NASA Lewis Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT), as a proposed high speed propulsion and adverse weather facility, would allow many such problems to be studied. The characteristics of the AWT related to adverse weather simulation and in particular to icing simulation are discussed, and potential icing research programs using the AWT are also included.


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    Title :

    NASA Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT): Its Role in Advanced Icing Research and Development


    Contributors:
    B. J. Blaha (author) / R. J. Shaw (author)

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English