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Old 02-13-2009, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Mistress View Post
What if you decreased fuel capacity to make up for that? Or if the wings could be covered in a material that would hinder icing.....
No too practical.

We do the surface material thing all the time. It’s called wax.

On taxi out we can get sprayed with alcohol/glycol as well.
That helps prevent accumulations of things like snow more than ice though.
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