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No, the deicing boot doesn't fend o...<a href="http://english4aviation.pbworks.com/f/birdstrike2.jpg" rel="nofollow">click here</a><br />No, the deicing boot doesn't fend off big bird strikes.<br /><br />I saw similar photo from USAF safety journal around 1980. Bald eagle struck at the edge of a boot so there was one talon and a wingtip sticking up from between the nearly intact boot and the duralumin wing edge.majrojnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-4404756408006425312011-03-12T05:56:28.909+00:002011-03-12T05:56:28.909+00:00I love these techno-whiz posts. I'm happy tha...I love these techno-whiz posts. I'm happy that write-to-remember and read-because-fascinated intersect so nicely.<br /><br />Here's a topic, if you need one for later: What's the difference between deice and anti-ice? Is there any overlap between them? That is, can a system be de-ice when the icing is not so severe, but if the ice is forming quickly enough, it's only anti-ice and can't be counted on to remove already formed ice? Is there a regulatory difference between deice and anti-ice for flight into known icing?Wayne Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595005905880642013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-81482895126758225012011-03-12T03:36:09.525+00:002011-03-12T03:36:09.525+00:00Another question. Somewhere in the dark recesses ...Another question. Somewhere in the dark recesses of my memory, I seem to recall that one can leave the de-icing boots on the leading edge of the wing inflated too long, resulting in an ice coating that cannot be broken by the boot, since it has formed on the boot's shape at the point of maximum inflation. Is that true? The timing mechanisms seem to defeat that possibility.<br /><br />The tragedy unfolding in Japan reminds me of when, in my youth, I traveled there to work at the Tokai 1 nuclear power station, some 100KM or so south of Fukushima, and maybe 150KM south of Sendai. The focus on the problems at Fuku 1 are one of those 'corners' of this tragedy. I'm hopeful it will amount to nothing more than a minor inconvenience to a neighborhood with much, much larger issues.<br /><br />It is a beautiful countryside, with wonderful houses and farms and people. My heart goes out to those people. And their cats.John Lennertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924844964753141338noreply@blogger.com