This paper traces the history of ice-formation control on aircraft in flight and the efforts made to provide an alternative to the uneconomic heating techniques. The EIPOS was developed in the USSR and uses dynamic wave pulses generated directly in the structure by an external electrodynamic field to break up the ice. The method has proved so successful that it is now finding applications in other fields.
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