"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
Attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. For some more information about Kurt and his brother Bernard, see Supercooled Clouds.
NACA Cleveland library, circa 1945.
Summary
There are over 100 articles on this website. Here is a guide to get to what you are interested in.
NACA-era icing publication reviews *
(* Well, mostly, a few post-NACA era ones are mixed in.)
This is the main focus of the blog, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics publications on aircraft icing, 1915 to 1958.
There are 132 publications in The Historical Selected Bibliography of NACA-NASA Icing Publications . (Not all of them have been reviewed yet.)
This blog was written in "threads" or themes on topics. Threads will have links to several articles. It is suggested, but not required, to read the articles in the order below.
- Introduction
- Icing on Cylinders Thread
- Icing Thermodynamics Thread
- Ice Shapes Thread
- Water Drop Evaporation Thread
- Icing Wind Tunnel Test Thread.
- Meteorological Instruments Thread
- Ice Protection Thread
- Meteorology of Icing Clouds Thread
- University of Michigan Airplane Icing Information Course Thread
- Water Drop Impingement on Surfaces
- Porter Perkins series
Other content
There are also some Diversions that take us into the post-NACA era (after 1958).
There is an About that covers other, miscellaneous topics about the website.
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The blog is a more detailed chronological listing of articles.
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