Why does aeroplanes body not become wet when it goes through clouds?
An interesting question because, as Engineering Poet, here-above, says, it does. I am also a light aircraft owner and pilot. When I fly in high humidity air, which doesn’t necessarily have to in inside a cloud, I can see it on my plane because it is made of steel tubes, fabric and fiberglass. The friction of the fiberglass creates a powder that then is mixed with the humidity of the air and leave coloured stripes when dried. So, an aircraft gets wet in the clouds. But those droplets move and are washed out of the fuselage with time. On the other hand, and as said above, if the droplets are under-cooled, they will freeze at once when touching the leading edge of the wing or the propeller. That will bring the plane down in a question of minutes, if not seconds. Last winter, a friend of mine tried to fly in freezing fog. He only came perhaps 200 ft in the air and lost lift, to crash on the ground. Luckily, it was in very deep snow and only the wings broke off. Later that year, I helped hi
