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Most pilots avoid cold fronts, plunging temperatures and dark storm clouds.
Not Russell Colley and Wesley Smith. That's what they hoped to find. Colley was a young engineer who was trying to solve a dangerous problem encountered by airplanes in the early days of aviation ice. At high altitudes, moisture froze on the wings of the plane, forming layers of ice. The ice changed the shape of the wing, causing air flowing over it to push the plane down rather than lift it up.