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What happens when an aircraft with these 1mm openings is flying through the clouds or freezing rain?

• bunderbunder 3y ago
  Sounds like a good question to probe with an X project.
• BriggyDwiggs42 3y ago
  Theyd be exhausting plasma right?
  • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > Theyd be exhausting plasma right? I don't see the word "plasma" once in the article. That said, neither de-icing nor small surface conduits are new in aviation. The J58 famously bled air overboard to disrupt a boundary layer [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_&_Whitney_J58#/media/File:SR71_J58_Engine_Airflow_Patterns.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_&_Whitney_J58#/media/Fil...
    • BriggyDwiggs42 3y ago
      Ah okay I think I just imagined that cause it wouldn’t make much sense anyways. Not sure why I thought I saw that.
• Aloisius 3y ago
  The openings they're pushing hot pressurized air through? Real world testing is the reason for these experimental demonstrators is it not?