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Concorde Icing Experiments 1970s
I'm looking for any information or photographs relating to the icing
experiments carried out with the Concorde during the early 1970s. The experiments consisted of the Concorde flying behind a water spraying aircraft (a A&AEE Canberra). Fine particles of water were sprayed by the Canberra and the amount of ice accretion on the Conrcorde was measured. I would be very grateful for any information, even memories , of these trials. Mike |
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Mike Kenner wrote:
I'm looking for any information or photographs relating to the icing experiments carried out with the Concorde during the early 1970s. The experiments consisted of the Concorde flying behind a water spraying aircraft (a A&AEE Canberra). Fine particles of water were sprayed by the Canberra and the amount of ice accretion on the Conrcorde was measured. I would be very grateful for any information, even memories , of these trials. Mike Statistically, the area off and parallel to the U.S. Northwest Coast (abeam Oregon and Washington) has plenty of moisture during the summer months. The Concorde came through Bangor, Maine on its way to the Seattle area to engage in icing tests. It was to fly up and down off the Northwest coast so pictures could be taken of the ice accretion. I was a forecaster in that area form about 7 1/2 years before moving to Bangor and I knew the possibility of icing was greatest during this period. Wouldn't you know it, there was a big High "parked" just off the coast producing clear skies in the test area. Rather than waste time waiting for the High to move, I was told they hired a KC-135 through the Boeing company to carry water and dispense it through the refueling boom. I never heard about the B-57 (Canberra) being used for the icing tests. Lou. |
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Lou Ramsay wrote in message link.net...
Mike Kenner wrote: I'm looking for any information or photographs relating to the icing experiments carried out with the Concorde during the early 1970s. The experiments consisted of the Concorde flying behind a water spraying aircraft (a A&AEE Canberra). Fine particles of water were sprayed by the Canberra and the amount of ice accretion on the Conrcorde was measured. I would be very grateful for any information, even memories , of these trials. Mike Statistically, the area off and parallel to the U.S. Northwest Coast (abeam Oregon and Washington) has plenty of moisture during the summer months. The Concorde came through Bangor, Maine on its way to the Seattle area to engage in icing tests. It was to fly up and down off the Northwest coast so pictures could be taken of the ice accretion. I was a forecaster in that area form about 7 1/2 years before moving to Bangor and I knew the possibility of icing was greatest during this period. Wouldn't you know it, there was a big High "parked" just off the coast producing clear skies in the test area. Rather than waste time waiting for the High to move, I was told they hired a KC-135 through the Boeing company to carry water and dispense it through the refueling boom. I never heard about the B-57 (Canberra) being used for the icing tests. Lou. Thanks Lou, I had heard that the Concorde had undergone icing trials in the US but was unsure where this took place. The information that the Canberra B(I)8 (mod) - WV787 was involved in the Concorde icing trials came from a recently released A&AEE Boscombe Down document A&AEE Note No 3114. (Public Record Office ref DSIR23/40766) The report mentions briefly that the Canberra was involved in icing calibration trials sometime before June 1973. It would appear that these trials took place somewhere over the UK. The Canberra Icing Tanker Aircraft is now at Newark Air Museum in the UK. This website has a couple of photographs of the aircraft. http://www.bywat.co.uk/wv787.html Mike |
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