PRESS RELEASE 98-23

Note to Editor/News Director: 98-23 

Lori J. Rachul
NASA Lewis Research Center
(Bus: 216/433-8806)



<em u="u">NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER SPONSORS AIRCRAFT ICING 
FORUM</em>



CLEVELAND, OH--Responding to President Clinton&rsquo;s call for a 
five-fold reduction in the rate of fatal aviation accidents within a 
decade, NASA Lewis will present the Agency&rsquo;s Aircraft Icing 
research plan during a forum on June 16 -17, 1998 at the Ohio 
Aerospace Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.



Based on inflight icing research activities, the forum will offer 
opportunities for representatives from other government agencies, 
industry, academia and the general public to participate and share 
ideas on the direction and progress of NASA&rsquo;s Aircraft Icing 
research program.



The goal of the safety element of the Aircraft Icing is to conduct 
research that will reduce the fatal accident rate caused by aviation 
icing weather phenomena in accordance with NASA&rsquo;s goals. This 
reduction is to be accomplished for commercial, general aviation and 
rotorcraft aircraft. Research will focus on developing analytical and 
experimental icing simulation tools for use by the aeronautics 
community, studying aircraft icing effects, developing new ice 
avoidance/ice tolerance concepts and expediting the transfer of 
existing technologies to aircraft manufactures and the meteorology 
agencies.



For further information regarding the forum, please contact:

<dl> <dd>Ms. Ashanti Trent</dd> <dd>440/962-3034</dd> 
<dd>AshantiTrent@oai.org</dd> </dl> # # # 

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