Back at work in Switzerland, so I finally got hold of Never Wet.
Brilliant!
I'd buy a bit from you if you like, for flight tests.
I am sure there will be plenty of icing opportunities soon 
Any practical test news?
In the meantime, I found a presentation on ice-phobic coatings: http://www.sae.org/events/icing/presentations/2007s15aburkitt.pdf. It’s probably biased but nevertheless interesting.
Here: http://tech-knowledge.co.il/suppliers/nusil/article-en.pdf is a more detailed paper from the same guys on the same topic.
I need to meet up with mdoerr to collect a bit of his stuff 
Organised for tomorrow.
Page 15 of that PDF is interesting!
> In the meantime, I found a presentation on ice-phobic coatings.
Good luck applying 135°C to your aircraft for 2 1/4 hours…
SLIPS may look very promising…
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/439/
The problem with coatings is the adhesion which seems to be better addressed with this solution..
Good luck applying 135°C to your aircraft for 2 1/4 hours…
Good point, although Nusil does also produce room-temperature coatings, and so presumably do other manufacturers.
Hi again everyone. So I just got back home from flying my PA38 on it’s first leg home (Bagby to Perth). I went up to about 6,000ft for most of the trip, and it was about 2 deg. C up there. I checked for carb ice every 10 mins or so, and for pitot icing. Didn’t have any problems.
But now that it’s getting colder, I was wondring what to do about wing icing (I haven’t had any, don’t worry!) Haha!
On these smaller aircraft, there is obviously no de-icing equipment for the wings. So my question is basically, could I put some anti-ice solution (antifreeze might be a bit aggressive for the paint) onto the wings, just as a precautionary measure?
Thanks,
SF.
could I put some anti-ice solution (antifreeze might be a bit aggressive for the paint) onto the wings, just as a precautionary measure?
Unfortunately not, it will be blown away by the slipstream within seconds after takeoff.
