Aerodynamic challenges of UAVs with thermal de-icing systems

** NEW PUBLICATION ** Operating drones in cold weather causes multiple challenges. Atmospheric in-cloud icing is one of them. Aircraft are often grounded during potential icing conditions because of significant performance degradation caused by ice accretion.Ice protection systems (IPS) are one way to mitigate icing-induced performance degradations and to open the atmospheric flight envelope. However,Continue reading “Aerodynamic challenges of UAVs with thermal de-icing systems”