REFLECTOR: pitot tube angle

[jewen at comporium.net]

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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