Investigators have determined that a Transavia Boeing 737-700 brought out of storage during the pandemic departed Rotterdam without its pitot-static pressure lines being connected to their air-data ...

Maintenance blunders keep catching pilots by surprise. Fortunately, the savvy and experienced pilots of a United Parcel Service (UPS) Boeing 747-200 freighter were able to retrieve the situation ...

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 ...

Rather than being stuck, the pitot static probes were not getting a rush of air flow, which resulted in all of them having the same incorrect speed reading from the pressure measured on both ends of ...

Insect nesting activity affected the pitot-static systems of eight different aircraft in the space of six weeks at London Heathrow last year, and UK investigators believe the behaviour could have been ...

The DPS1000 meets RSVM accuracy requirements and the 1811NG is suitable for helicopters and light aircraft. Photo: Dallas Avionics [Avionics Today 08-02-2016] Dallas Avionics is now a distributor of ...

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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 ...