The Non-NACA "NACA" Icing Publications

Published: Sat 18 May 2024
Updated: Sat 18 May 2024

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The 132 publications in the “Selected Bibliography of NACA-NASA Aircraft Icing Publications” 1 include seven citations that were not published by NACA. This also has an effect of making some them difficult to find online:

  • Two NASA publications

    • Perkins, Porter J.: Summary of Statistical Icing Cloud Data Measured Over United States and North Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Ocean During Routine Aircraft Operations. NASA Memo 1-19-59E, 1959.
    • Gray, Vernon H.: Prediction of Aerodynamic Penalties Caused by Ice Formations on Various Airfoils. NASA-TM-D-2166, 1964.
  • Two references to NASA-TM-X-54700, which purportedly documents the “Compilation of the Paper Presented at NACA Conference on Some Problems of Aircraft Operation". However, the citation NASA-TM-X-54700 appears to be an error, as on the ntrs it is listed as “Space radiation- a compilation and discussion”. The “Compilation of the Paper Presented at NACA Conference on Some Problems of Aircraft Operation" is available as a print book.

    • von Glahn, Uwe H.: "Some Considerations for the Need of Icing Protection of High-Speed, High-Altitude Airplanes", NACA Conference on Some Problems of Aircraft Operation. NASA-TM-82265, 1954.
      • The NTRS link does not have a file download available.
    • Gray, Vernon H.: "Icing Conditions to be Expected in Operation of High-Speed, High-Altitude Airplanes". NACA Conference on Some Problems of Aircraft Operation. NASA-TM-82266, 1954.
      • The NTRS link does not have a file download available.
  • Three presentations by NACA staff given at conferences

    • Gray, Vernon H.: "Correlation of Airfoil Ice Formations and Their Aerodynamic Effects With Impingement and Flight Conditions". SAE preprint No. 225 (paper presented at SAE National Aeronautics Meeting), October 1957.
      • The NTRS link does not have a download available.
      • It is available for purchase from the SAE.
      • this appears to be similar to 2
    • Gray, Vernon H.: "Heat Requirements for Ice Prevention on Gas-Heated Propellers". SAE preprint No. 424 (paper presented at SAE Annual Meeting), 1950.
      • The NTRS link does not have a download available.
      • It is available for purchase from the SAE.
    • von Glahn, Uwe H.: "The Icing Problem", presented at Ottawa AGARD Conference. AG 19/P9, 10-17 June 1955.
      • The NTRS link does not have a download available.
      • I have not been able to find this.
      • It appears to be what is reproduced in full in 1 as "The Icing Problem- Current Status and Research".

Notes:


  1. "Selected Bibliography of NACA-NASA Aircraft Icing Publications", NASA-TM-81651, August, 1981.
    I could not locate this on the NTRS.
    It is available at (https://core.ac.uk/reader/42858720) (circa November, 2021) 

  2. Gray, Vernon H.: Correlations Among Ice Measurements, Impingement Rates, Icing Conditions and Drag Coefficients for an Unswept NACA 65A004 Airfoil. NACA-TN-4151, 1958. 

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