Hans Conser wrote:

I know that it's been discussed here before, but I can't help but think that
there is enough heat in the exhaust of a rotary to de-ice the wings on say,
an RV-4. All it would take is to have one exhaust runner run though the
lightening holes in the leading edge of each wing, paint the inside of the
leading edges black to absorb the radiant heat, have the exhaust exit out the
trailing edges on the wing tips. You'd have to have the fuel tanks elsewhere
from where they are, but that's easy if you're only theorizing about it like
I am now.

Somebody stop me now.

Brian Trubee

Sounds like a good way to melt your wings off to me.  seriously, as hard as 

rotaries are on exhausts, do you want that near you wing structure?

Hans Conser

 
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