In these eight early papers can be found some of the conceptual cornerstones that, valid or not, continue to influence thinking today, as well as evidence that some ideas we think of as “new” were really known a long time ago. Look for Carroll and McAvoy to argue that every deposit upon the wings or parts of an airplane is not necessarily hazardous, Findeisen to advocate for “meteorologically correct navigation”, and Samuels to suggest that frost is never a hazard. The French committee report has an interesting discussion of inter-cycle ice with a pneumatic boot in the 1930s. In the 1950s, Grey and von Glahn began to document the drag effects of ice, and Bowden’s 1956 paper makes an early argument for short delays between boot cycles.

The Formation of Ice Upon Exposed Parts of an Airplane in Flight
Thomas Carroll and William McAvoy
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
NACA TN-293
July, 1928

The Formation of Ice Upon Airplanes in Flight
Thomas Carroll and William McAvoy
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
NACA TN-313
August, 1929

The Formation of Ice On Airplanes
H. Noth, W. Polte
Luftwissen
Volume II, Number 11
NACA TN-786
1935

Meteorological-Physical Limitations of Ice in the Atmosphere
W. Findeisen
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1938, pages 121-133
NACA TN-885
January, 1939

Report on Ice Formation on Aircraft
French Committee for the Study of Ice Formation
May 19, 1938
NACA TN-919
November, 1939R

Effect of Ice and Frost Formations on Drag of NACA 65(1)-212 Airfoil for Various Modes of Thermal Ice Protection
V. H. Grey and U. H. von Glahn
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
NACA TN-2962
June, 1953

Effect of Pneumatic De-Icers and Ice Formations on Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Airfoil
D. T. Bowden
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
NACA TN-3564
February, 1956