Accident investigators think icing of Pitot tubes used to determine aircraft air speed might have caused the crash of Air France flight 447 on 31 May 2009. Although journalists and others have talked ...

Investigators have determined that an Antonov An-124 aborted its take-off run from Leipzig, after protective covers were inadvertently left on the pitot-static tubes. The Antonov Airlines aircraft was ...

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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.

One can notice a thin metre-long tube protruding from the nose of every aircraft, which is an air pressure measurement device and an essential component in the flight system. Efforts are on to develop ...

UAV Factory’s heated Pitot-Static Tube is the lightest and most power efficient commercially available probe for small unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV). Manufactured from carbon fiber and aircraft ...

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 ...

C&L Aerospace, a division of C&L Aviation Group, has signed an agreement with CSI to serve as a distributor for Saab 340 Pitot Static Tubes that have been overhauled to like-new-factory specs.

A malfunction in the pitot-static system of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 is likely to have led to a “technical issue” which saw the aircraft pitch up and subsequently lose altitude. In a ...

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The thin metre-long tube protruding from the nose of every aircraft would be a thing of the past once the Photonic-based system is commercialised. The air pressure measurement device – Pitot-static ...