deicing boot

English

A deicing boot

Alternative forms

• deice boot
• deicer boot
• de-icing boot
• deicing-boot (attributive use)

Noun

deicing boot (plural deicing boots)

1. (aviation) An inflatable rubber membrane attached to aircraft surfaces to permit mechanical deicing in flight.
   • 1976 December 31, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Manual: Army Models U-21A, RU-21A, and RU21D, Change No. 18, US Army, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Reference Manual TM 55-1510-209-23-1, Volume 1, WAR-5,

     An aircraft shall not be flown with a damaged deicing boot.

   • 1985 October, J. Mac Mclellan, “Breaking the Ice: One name still rules”, in Flying, page 10:

     IT'S BEEN MORE than 50 years since B.F. Goodrich installed the first inflatable deicing boots on an airplane (a Northrop mail airplane), and they continue to be the simplest, lowest-cost and lightest way to protect most airplanes from ice accumulated while in flight. […] Other rubber companies have attempted to enter the deicing-boot business over the years, but only Goodrich has succeeded.

   • 2009, K. C. Khurana, Aviation Management: Global Perspectives, Global India Publications, page 51,

     Deicing boots were invented by the B.F. Goodrich Corporation in 1923 in Akron, Ohio.

Translations

aviation: inflatable rubber membrane

• Finnish: paisuntakumi