(October 2011) Air France 447 went down in the mid-Atlantic in 2009 because all three of its pitot tubes iced up. Well, not exactly. It wasn’t the loss of functioning pitot tubes that doomed the ...

Airbus has submitted a US patent application for an independent means of monitoring an aircraft's pressure-based airspeed measurement for errors. While the process is mainly geared at determining ...

UV-based “LASSI” system more accurate and sturdy than conventional pitot systems. Challenge for LASSI: UV laser-based airspeed sensing in high altitude aircraft. In what they are claiming is “an ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airspeed, an innovative platform focused on connecting and celebrating employees to drive engagement and performance, today announced the launch of Culture Graph ...