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

        I think you would start a discussion of DE-ICING VS
ANTI-ICING. How much heat left after the Turbo? How
corrosive are the exaust gasses? Run a stainless steel tube
through the lightening holes and pass the gasses through it ?
        Virg
 

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