Form the inside of a de-iced plane, it looks like they poured clear syrup all over it. Or so I was reminded when waiting to take off from O’Hare on Saturday night after a snowstorm. What I found, when I tried to shoot pictures through this rippled ooze, was some fun photographic effects. The shot above is one example among many.
Lights outside were optically exploded into large spongy-looking blobs that resembled models of the universe, cooled meteorites, series of vertebrae, asteroids from old video games…
Anyway, I shot a lot of them.
Tags: 2009_02_21, atl-ord-bos, aviation, de-icing, Photography
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Nice pictures. That looks really cool.
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De-icing recipes used to include Glycol in the fluid mixture. That was so in ’82, at least, when I did the electrical work in the manufacturing of De-icing trucks.
*Fun with Chemistry !!*
At one point, a grade A 3/8 inch steel bolt was suspended on a string in a bucket of Glycol. Over time the bolt was reduced to nothing.
RBM
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Bad html. Fixed it, but also took out a link or two, because I couldn’t verify them with Flickr havig “hiccups”.
Seems that various glycols are still in use, fwiw.
In this case they first used hot water, then the green stuff.
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Doc
Takes me back to “light shows” in the 70’s (VBG)Ciao
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Yeah, Chip. Took me back too. I gave some of my hearing to those shows. Probably some neurons too.
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