Welcome to the "Blast from the Past" Newsletter! Reviews of the NACA-era aircraft icing publications, 1915 to 1958. - Headline "Fiery woman chases icing researchers!" (see further below ...) - Latest post: Updated https://icinganalysis.com/hard-to-find-publications.html to note the newly available "Heat Transfer Calculation for Aerofoils" RAE Rep. No. Aero. 1783, Nov. 1942. The Porter Perkins series has started https://icinganalysis.com/drafts/porter-perkins.html, - What is in work: Does the world need Yet Another Introduction to Aircraft Icing (YAItAI)? Why not, see a draft at https://icinganalysis.com/drafts/the-basics.html - Latest finds/ Public Domain Image of the Week: The XB-25E "Flamin' Mamie" used for icing research. In https://history.nasa.gov/SP-2016-627.pdf, Image 104 describes: The XB–25E Mitchell searches for icing clouds in January 1947. The aircraft, dubbed “Flamin Mamie,” includes nose artwork depicting a fiery woman chasing off icing researchers (GRC–1947–C–17763). (This has not happened yet in my career.) More and better pictures at: https://www.blindbatnews.com/2020/10/b-25-flamin-maimie-was-as-cold-as-ice/77321 https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/portal/apps/naca/img/B-25/b25-t.jpg https://b-25history.org/hangar/25e.htm https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/portal/apps/naca/#c19 https://www.dvidshub.net/image/832476/xb-25-e-b-25-airplane-showing-anti-ice-installations (This may eventually be a blog post) - The secret newsletter archive Subscribers may view the newsletter archives at https://icinganalysis.com/... The public may view them a few weeks after they are published at https://icinganalysis.com/newsletter-archive.html