A STRANGE ALLIANCE
REMOVING AN AVIATION PROBLEM fßy Air Mail—Own Correßpopdentl LONDON, 3rd November. Smithfield meat market has been ’ pressed into service by our aviation! specialists. It seems a strange alliance, i but it has proved effective. One of! the great bugbears that perplex aviation, next in importance perhaps to prevention of fire, is how to stop ice j formation on wing planes and other j parts of high-flying machines. Various j devices have been tried, but the most promising appears to be a Kilfrost paste smeared or painted over the plane. It is claimed that hy this means, though ice may form, it will quickly dfop off. To test this “mustard plaster” treatment, sections of a plane have been placed in a refrigerator tunnel, with a 60 rp.p.h. wind pressure and appropriate moisture, at Smithfield market. The results qre declared, by; those who expertly examined them, to 1 be most satisfactory. In all cases, and even after heavy water showers had played pn the paste, the ice formation tended to crumble away. Kilfrost may possibly have interest for Arctic explorers top!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 16
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182A STRANGE ALLIANCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 16
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