The paints which came out a while ago don’t seem to work at all for aircraft
Maybe this one is not that new…
It appears to vibrate the leading edge.
Comparison table:
Existing design-ins:
@Peter, that’s interesting. Seems to breathe a new meaning into an old joke: if they make aircraft black boxes out of crash-resistant material, why don’t they make the whole aircraft of the same stuff?
…built up ice simply falls off a wing all on its own
Hmm, and what if a chunk of it hits the tailplane?
Is that really a significant risk? The ice falling off is traveling at close to the same speed as the airplane, it’s not like hitting an ice ball at TAS