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Nah, just shows that you're actually capable of thinking beyond aviation.P-Dawg_QX said:LOL....I came into this thread expecting to see a discussion on how the first humans got to North America.
Don't worry about me, I'll just be over here...committing myself to the insane asylum.
P-Dawg_QX said:LOL....I came into this thread expecting to see a discussion on how the first humans got to North America.
Don't worry about me, I'll just be over here...committing myself to the insane asylum.
shamrock said:Don't know if it helps, but I thought the same thing as well.
LowlyPropCapt said:I thought that had everything to do with holding in severe icing conditions with SLD of a size that no aircraft is certified for.
r1830 said:We were flying a 200 Series Twin Otter(less power than the more prominent 300 Series) from Bethel to Anchorage over the Alaska Range. It was late spring, early summer and the leading edge was covered with a combination of old deice fluid, dirt and bugs.
What you described was boots with the inability to shed ice - but that's not ice bridging. Ice bridging is when the boots "push" the ice out so that it forms a shape around the boots and continues to build. Subsequent inflations of the boot occur in the space between the wing and the ice - the ice has "bridged" the boots.
The boots inflated but most of the ice did not shed. We decided to let it build up a little more ant try it again. This time with a little more than a ½ inch of ice we cycled the boots with the same result.