deicing boot

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A deicing boot

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deicing boot (plural deicing boots)

  1. (aviation) An inflatable rubber membrane attached to aircraft surfaces to permit mechanical deicing in flight.
    • 1976 December 31, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Manual: Army Models U-21A, RU-21A, and RU21D, Change No. 18, US Army, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Reference Manual TM 55-1510-209-23-1, Volume 1, WAR-5,
      An aircraft shall not be flown with a damaged deicing boot.
    • 1985 October, J. Mac Mclellan, “Breaking the Ice: One name still rules”, in Flying, page 10:
      IT'S BEEN MORE than 50 years since B.F. Goodrich installed the first inflatable deicing boots on an airplane (a Northrop mail airplane), and they continue to be the simplest, lowest-cost and lightest way to protect most airplanes from ice accumulated while in flight. [] Other rubber companies have attempted to enter the deicing-boot business over the years, but only Goodrich has succeeded.
    • 2009, K. C. Khurana, Aviation Management: Global Perspectives, Global India Publications, page 51,
      Deicing boots were invented by the B.F. Goodrich Corporation in 1923 in Akron, Ohio.

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