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Canadian Research in the Field of Helicopter Icing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

J R Stallabrass
J R Stallabrass*
Affiliation:
National Research Council, Ottawa
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The CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting, said that the paper, which Mr Stallabrass had come over from Canada to present, dealt with a very important subject in the helicopter field, having as a practical objective the eventual achievement of all-weather helicopter operation The National Research Council of Canada had been studying the problem of aircraft icing long before it was necessary to devote attention to the special problems of helicopter de-icing, no doubt the climate in that part of the world having had something to do with this

Mr Stallabrass had served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1947 and had experience as a pilot with Coastal Command in anti-submarine operations Later, he took an honours degree at London University in electrical engineering and worked for a year on guided missiles with the General Electric Company In 1952 he went over to Canada, where he worked on various aspects of icing research at the low temperature laboratory of the National Research Council

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Research Article
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The Journal of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , August 1958 , pp. 169 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1958

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