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February 15th 09, 06:22 PM
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icing
On Feb 15, 12:50*pm, rlovinggood wrote:
The model in the background looks like a Gulfstream. *Probably a Gulfstream II ? *The horizontal elliptical windows sure look like the Gulfstream trademark to me. *I guess they installed the turboprop on the jet powered aircraft to study effects of tailplane icing on a turboprop aircraft, but with jet engines as extra safety items (?) Maybe the jets would provide not only extra thrust but also some "de- icing" power??? Ray Lovinggood Carrboro, North Carolina, USA After actually watching the entire, sobering, video, let me change my answer: I still think the model is a Gulfstream II, but it had NOTHING to do with the icing experiment. By the looks of the prop on the turboprop engine, I say the model was a testbed for the propeller. Ray 
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