Blimey, that is a scary thing to have to report over the radio, that your
controls are iced up. I wondered how people could know this is what happened...
But he said it over the radio.
Yep, I had quite a bit or rime ice, but everything was still moving freely.
Wow.
RIP Ken.
Thanks for the sad re
Thanks Colin. Good to see something from you.
Ken Rand had had many narrow escapes with his planes and was counting on
yet another one, but this time his luck had run out. LA was having one
of the most unusual winter storms on record when he came in non-stop from
Texas, just about out of fuel.
KR2 don't seem vulnerable to ice. I was heavily iced up flying to Japan, till I
ditched the IFR flight plan and went VFR along the coast to get out of the snow
clouds and melt the build up. The ice seemed to make no significant
deterioration to flight characteristics or performance. No idea what
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