Why aviation industry has cloudy knowledge of risks from volcanic ash
APR 21, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024264
The Guardian : A key assumption behind the recent ban on air traffic in the UK, France, and other European countries is that ash spewed into the air by Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano would cripple a jetliner’s turbines. That assumption, it turns out, was based in part on wind-tunnel data taken under conditions whose applicability to the ashy skies above Northern Europe is in doubt.
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