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Part of deaning an airplane is the dearing loose chunks of frozen vapour off its surface to ensure safety during flights. In cold regions, aircraft face the risk of ice-formation taking place on their surface. Ice causes the aircraft's surface to become rough and uneven. This disrupts the smooth air flow and increases the drag. If large pieces of ice break up into loose chunks during flight, these can get into the engines or hit the propellers and cause them to malfunction and spell disaster.

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De-icing, which ensures that an aircraft can fly safely in such conditions, involves simply the removal of existing ice or snow from a surface. De-icers are usually chemicals that dissolve the ice. Sometimes, infrared rays are also used for de-icing.

Aircraft de-icing is done on the ground before take-off. The plane's surface is sprayed with the de icing fluid so that the engine inlets, wings and various other sensors are free of condensed precipitation. After this the aircraft is generally sprayed with anti-icers to prevent the water on the surface from refreezing.

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Al fiction is a constantly evolving genre that gives us a peek into the potential umides and downsides of intelligent machines whether it is books written by humans with robots and Al as central characters or stories composed entirely by machine learning algorithms. Al fiction never fails to captivate readers and stimulate discussions about what is in store for technology in the future. Artificial intelligence hum long barn a popular topic in soner fiction from haar

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Science fiction (sci-fi) & Al

For generations, sci-fi has foreseen the pervasive influence of Al in our daily life. Its representation in mainstream media has played a pivotal role in shaping public opinions towards this technological advancement Films such as The Terminator and Ex Machina have helped to shape the cultural narrative around Al, with many people viewing intelligent machines as potential threats to human safety and autonomy. At the same time, this type of speculative fiction has also explored the more positive aspects of Al, from the helpful robots of Wall-E to the benevolent supercomputers of 2001: A Space Odyssey. As Al technology continues to evolve, it's likely that all the good, bad, and ugly visions of intelligent machines will continue to be explored in fiction.

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