A photo from open sources World Aviation in its history I encountered a lot of problems, but few of them can be called as serious and potentially dangerous as icing. Today, every plane is sprayed before the flight antifreeze, however it is wasteful, not too effective and, In addition, it is detrimental to the environment.
American scientists from the University of Arizona are going to find solution to this problem. Deicing expert materials Konrad Rikaszewski, who is the author of the new research, plans to make aircraft the whole world began to use much less antifreeze. Wherein an interesting theory visited the heads of Americans literally on days.
A promising idea was “prompted” by researchers poison frog, which is known for its unusual mechanism protection against predators. The skin of this amphibian consists of several layers with different purposes. In case of danger, the top layer skin, characterized by high strength, performs the function a kind of shield. If the enemy manages to break through it, the inner deadly poison layer kills instantly predator.
The Americans came up with the so-called “crying skin” for the plane. She will have two layers with completely different functions. The top layer of the skin will interact with the atmosphere. If icing begins, ice on the outside the layer will react with antifreeze on the inside, which will lead to the melting of frozen water.
Experts have already begun to make a prototype of a miraculous casing the most unusual plane. It is reported that they will test it on drones in the Arctic.
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