REFLECTOR: pitot tube angle

[Douglas Holub]

Good thinking. Thanks.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: pitot tube angle


> Doug,
> If you have your air speed indicator, hook it up and have someone drive
> you down the highway.  Monitor the ASI at various angles.  I need to
> determine some initial calibration values for my electronic/computer
> system.  So I drove back and forth on a friday night (2:00 AM) collecting
> data at different speeds.  Winds were light but I averaged the values
> traveling north and south to minimize any wind influence.
>
> Joe (Did not test at landing speed, or at least that I would admit to.)
>
>
> On Mon, March 26, 2007 2:56 pm, Douglas Holub wrote:
>> I'm putting a new surplus 1950's fighter jet heated pitot tube in my nose
>> right above the landing light. But to get the bayonet to poke out in the
>> middle of the nose it needs to angle down about 7 degrees. Will that
>> affect its accuracy very much?
>>
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