Ice crystal accretion and icing in turbofan engines present a significant challenge to aviation safety and engine performance worldwide. The phenomenon occurs when high-altitude glaciated particles, ...

NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory has been seen recently off the NC coast, hunting microscopic ice that can build up in aircraft engines causing failures. An eagle-eyed viewer spotted a NASA plane off ...

On hand to sign the renewal agreement Thursday at the NRC offices in Ottawa, Ontario, were Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, and ...

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 ...

De-icing and anti-icing are standard practices for most airlines nowadays, but that wasn’t always the case. "After enough accidents, the (Federal Aviation Administration) realized they couldn't just ...

Business aviation has never been safer on paper, yet accident reports keep circling back to the same stubborn threats: loss of control, rushed decisions and, increasingly, ice contamination that ...

SEATTLE/TOKYO (Reuters) - Boeing advised airlines on Friday about a risk of engine icing problems on its new 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner planes with engines made by General Electric , urging 15 carriers ...

NASA Glenn's specialties have including icing for decades. Ratvasky said, "Ice crystals at high altitudes normally cannot be detected by onboard weather radar and visibly do not appear to be a danger ...