With icing still a prevalent threat to air transport, a European-funded project has been exploring hybrid detection of ice build-up through a combination of new sensor technology and analysis of ...

Icing has emerged as a primary line of inquiry into the fatal Voepass ATR 72-500 crash near Sao Paulo, during which the aircraft slowed, stalled and entered a flat spin from which the crew did not ...

Embraer Phenom ice-protection panel. Credit: BFU Germany In February 2014, 10 months before the Gaithersburg crash, an Embraer EMB-145 regional airliner had a hard landing in icing conditions at ...

Because the sensor is composed of just two thin layers, it is extremely lightweight, easy to fabricate and can be applied to ...