NASA is testing radical new airplane wing designs that could drastically cut fuel use—but there's a catch: they may be more ...

NASA’s Icing Tests: Can These Wings Handle the Cold ... These tests are critical because before any new aircraft design can be approved, it has to meet strict Federal Aviation Administration ...

The Bering Air Textron Aviation Cessna 208B that crashed in February, killing 10 people, had exceeded the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) allowed in icing conditions ... of its wings and wing ...

"The weight of an aircraft, the fact that icing is something ... at 3:20 p.m., at an altitude of 200 feet. The anti-icing system on the wings and tail of the 5-year-old turbo-propeller airplane ...