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航空機事故から学ぶ：Pitot管への不注意

ピトー管(Pitot tube)は、ライト兄弟が1903年に初飛行した170年も前の1732年にHenri Pitotによって考案された流体速度計であり、今日でも航空のessential equipmentとして利用されています。その理由は装置が簡単ながら、精密に速度を表示できるためです。興味がある ...
ZDNet

Faulty Pitot tubes probably would have made doomed Air France A330 fly too fast

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 ...
Hackaday

Using Pitot Tubes For More Than 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 ...
Flightglobal

A319 pitot blockage after prolonged storage led to post-V1 take-off abort

UK investigators have found that a pitot-tube blockage generating unreliable airspeed data spurred an EasyJet Airbus A319 crew to abort take-off at high speed at London Luton. The A319 (G-EZBD) was ...
The Hindu

Photonic alternative to pitot tube developed

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 ...