Originally Posted by
j3gibbon
The thought process behind the lack of tail anti ice is that the wings will pick it up first (larger X section) and by the time those pick up enough for the tail to start having problems you arent' flying anymore.
NASA does have a nice video on tail plain icing (normally part of their complete video) and recovering from it, very interesting
Not really....Thin airfoils accrete ice faster than thicker airfoils. Its in the nasa tailplane icing video even!