Skip to content
Tech News

This Poor Plane is More Ice than Aircraft After an Extreme Icing Test

By

Reading time 1 minute

Comments (0)

Holy crap. Testing how aircraft ice in extreme cold weather makes sense, but surely this is going too far?! This 1983 test at NASA’s Icing Research Tunnel dropped this commuter transport engine into its own special torment, spraying it with water to observe freezing on the test model.

Image credit: NASA


Contact the author at [email protected] or follow her at @MikaMcKinnon.

Explore more on these topics

Share this story

Sign up for our newsletters

Subscribe and interact with our community, get up to date with our customised Newsletters and much more.