Snow, Ice, or Frost on the Wings:
Never attempt to takeoff with any ice or frost on the aircraft
Ice and frost can cause an aircraft to have sudden and violent stall characteristics.
Any stall caused by ice or frost may be unrecoverable ...
Snow Grains
Precipitation that comprises very small white and opaque grains of ice. These grains are fairly flat or elongated; their diameter is less than 1 mm. When they hit hard ground, they do not bounce or shatter.
Snow Pellets ...
Snow: Precipitation in the form of feathery ice crystals.
Soaring: Maintaining free flight without power, usually in a thermal current of ascending air.
Solidity: The ratio of the blade area of a propeller or rotor to the total disc area.
In snow covered area's it can be very difficult to see the different ranges as the can merge with each other due the the whit color of the snow.
Sailing over snow with a sail kite or power kite.
Sailing over snow.
Sailing a waterboard: kitesurfing.
If the runway is covered with mud, tall grass, sand, or snow, there can be troublesome amounts of friction against the wheels.
The breaker bar I use to crack the ice that will soon collect along the base of the hangar door is ready, leaning in the corner, next to the snow shovel and a sack of urea fertilizer that will melt ice without harming aluminum.
Above what seemed like an infinite blanket of the whitest snow you can imagine, factory pilot Steve Anderson led us into a small valley, lined with tall pines and small, rounded mountains.
CONTAMINATED RUNWAY- A runway is considered contaminated whenever standing water, ice, snow, slush, frost in any form, heavy rubber, or other substances are present.
(Miles 17 through 19 were still closed by snow.) The average fuel burn for both aircraft was 6 gph. That may be because Gauch and I were in a hurry, but the Air Force found that the C1 Eclipse burns 4.
Some examples of flying in IMC are: flying through clouds, blinding rain, snow, fog, haze, cloud ceilings below 1000ft AGL (above ground level), or a prevailing visibility of less then 3 statue miles.
A bearded giant, mighty of muscle, Paul Bunyan was the ruler of American life between the Winter of the Blue Snow and the Spring That the Rain Came Up From China.
and the 1910 design (snow), which was based on a discarded (but theoretically feasible) Cayley idea.
Precipitation static (P-static). A form of radio interference caused by rain, snow, or dust particles hitting the antenna and inducing a small radio-frequency voltage into it.
By the time we make Northeast Philadelphia, it's dark, dark, dark. We land at the FBO and call the people we're going to be staying with. You notice that there is snow on the ground. A lot colder than New Orleans, that's for sure! ...
on a steamship, so that if one or more cells fail the ship will still remain aloft: (b) The triple cover system, one cover to hold the lifting gas, one consisting of the shape-forming duralumin frame-work, and an outer cover to shed rain and snow, ...
city, with departments for purchasing, engineering, finance, legal, operations, personnel, administration, security, public relations, etc. They also have fire and police departments and must handle such typical municipal duties as trash and snow ...
A local landed his freshly overhauled Tri-pacer in two feet of snow and put it over on its back and he's so P.O.'d he'll sell the whole thing for $500. You know the deals.
CAVOK - pronounced CAV okay (ceiling and visibility OK), visibility at least ten kilometres, with no cloud below 5,000 feet, with no Cbs, precipitation, thunderstorms, shallow fog or low drifting snow.
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