FLYING RESEARCH
ICE IN CARBURETTOR
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, November 5.
The report of the Aeronautical Research Committee just issued records important results from experiments at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough with regard to the failure of engines in flight due to the formation of ice in the carburettor or to accumulation of air or vapour in the petrol system.
It had been shown that formation of ice could be eliminated by the addition of a small quantity of alcohol to the petrol. Apparatus has been devised which detects the onsetof freezing and supplies alcohol until the ice has been dispersed. , The apparatus has given satisfaction under laboratory tests and will now be tried attached to an engine both on a bench and in flight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9
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126FLYING RESEARCH Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9
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