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  1. The Blast from the Past Newsletter

    Published: Sat 30 September 2023
    Updated: Sat 18 May 2024

    tags: about
    newsletter

    “The greatest of all our problems is ice.”

    "The situation changed in the mid-1920s when the intrepid aviators of the U.S. Air Mail Service attempted to maintain scheduled day-and-night operations between New York and Chicago... As one of their pilots noted at the time about the hazards of the New York-Chicago route, “the greatest of all our problems is ice.”" 1

    Figure 2 from NACA-TN-313. Sketches of ice formation on wings and wires. (From notes and sketches on numerous flights.)
    From NACA-TN-313, 1929. 2

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