When we hear the words “pitot tube,” we tend to think more of airplanes than of air ducts, but [Franci Kopač]’s guide to pitot tubes for makers shows that they can be a remarkably versatile tool for ...
When we hear the words “pitot tube,” we tend to think more of airplanes than of air ducts, but [Franci Kopač]’s guide to pitot tubes for makers shows that they can be a remarkably versatile tool for ...
Every part of a fighter jet has a job to do. Even the tiny things that don't seem important at first, like that thin metal rod sticking out from the nose in jets like F-16, actually serve a purpose.
This recent post and preceding items mention the still-ambiguous mix of data concerning the crash of Air France 447 into the Atlantic six weeks ago. The plane's presence in a tropical thunderstorm was ...
Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, The Associated Press has learned. But air ...
New standards for pitot probes are expected to emerge from a working group being founded in the wake of June's fatal loss of an Air France Airbus A330 over the south Atlantic. Airbus is backing ...
AIRASIA is installing a new piece of technology in its planes to ensure they don’t suddenly stall mid-flight and lose another plane again. AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes revealed a new “ice-proof” ...
It's frightening if not ironic to think an invention from the early 1700s could have triggered a chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 447. Pitot tubes that today measure airspeed were ...
The Pitot tube, a simple device for determining the subsurface flow of water, is a hollow tube with a bend at the bottom that can be turned to face the flow. Henri Pitot, a French engineer, described ...
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