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How fast does the skin of the airplane cool to surrounding temperatures?
Mxsmanic wrote: Danny Dot writes: You might be better off to taxi out with 20 degree wings that will not have the snow melt and attach. The wings couldn't melt snow _and_ freeze it. They could freeze water droplets, or melt ice particles, but not both. Have you tried this with your simulator? We have six airplanes here, and when we take them out of a warm hangar into falling snow, the snow melts on the airplane, and then the resultant water freezes as the structure cools off. Makes a mess. Works better to open the hangar door and let the airplanes cool off first before moving them outside. Maybe you should take your computer outside in various weather conditions and see frost form or snow melt and refreeze. Be sure it's turned off, like the real airplane. I bet you've never seen ice fog generated by an airplane propeller. An aircraft on runup can trugger fog over the whole airport in a minute or two under the right conditions. Maybe the fan on your computer could be made to duplicate it? Dan |
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How fast does the skin of the airplane cool to surrounding temperatures?
Chris W writes:
How well aluminum conducts heat has nothing to do with it. It has a great deal to do with it, because it determines how much heat energy must be removed or added in order to reach a given temperature at a given point. Since aluminum conducts heat well, as soon as the skin of the plane cools, heat from within will flow into the skin and further cooling will occur, and just about everything made of aluminum will become cold very quickly. If the skin were Styrofoam, it would cool almost instantly at the very surface, but the remaining mass of foam and whatever was behind it would stay warm much longer. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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How fast does the skin of the airplane cool to surrounding temperatures?
Mxsmanic wrote: Chris W writes: How well aluminum conducts heat has nothing to do with it. It has a great deal to do with it, because it determines how much heat energy must be removed or added in order to reach a given temperature at a given point. Since aluminum conducts heat well, as soon as the skin of the plane cools, heat from within will flow into the skin and further cooling will occur, and just about everything made of aluminum will become cold very quickly. If the skin were Styrofoam, it would cool almost instantly at the very surface, but the remaining mass of foam and whatever was behind it would stay warm much longer. Sure. But it's the surface that ice forms upon, not the warmer interior. A composite skin might cool off faster since it's insulated from the rest of the structure. Dan |
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