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 ...

Everyone involved with IAQ knows about the 1970s, when excess energy use became Public Enemy No. 1 for commercial building designers. Saving energy was the critical goal: Air leaks were being hunted ...

June 10 (Reuters) - Attention is focusing on the possibility that faulty speed sensors, or pitot tubes, were a factor in causing an Air France Airbus A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean last week.

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 ...

Ohio-based Aero-Instruments has received US FAA parts manufacturer approval (PMA) to market retrofit pitot probes for a large variety of Airbus aircraft, giving operators another provider to choose ...

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 ...

A Civil Aviation Safety Authority airworthiness bulletin about wasp nest infestation has revealed the insects can build a nest capable of blocking a Pitot tube within just 20-minutes. A previous ...

A wasp has been found to pose an even greater threat to aircraft than previously thought, with its speedy nest building capable of blocking vital data feeds. A Civil Aviation Safety Authority ...