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Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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lugnet.adventurers
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Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:18:46 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Chris Paton wrote:
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Hi Christian
This is a really well put together MOC. I love the external details for the
instruments and the use of rubber bands (LEGO rubber bands of course!). By
the way, what is a pitot tube?
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It is a device used on an aircraft to measure airspeed. If you know the static
pressure you are in, and you also know the apparent pressure that you are
experiencing in the direction of travel, (“ram air”) the difference can be used
to calculate your airspeed.
So a Pitot tube is a small tube facing forward (which is hopefully your
direction of travel, if not, you have bigger issues) to capture dynamic
pressure. It is often combined with other devices to yield differential pressure
in one measurement. With a properly calibrated pressure gauge this then
translates directly to airspeed. IF I recall correctly.
I wasn’t able to google for a good tutorial so I may not have all the details
100% right.
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| (...) Yahoo spits up three right at the top. They have varying degrees of technospeak, so I'm posting all three: (URL) course, the go-to website on how stuff works is, of course, www.howstuffworks.com: (URL) may not always have the best description (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Hi Christian This is a really well put together MOC. I love the external details for the instruments and the use of rubber bands (LEGO rubber bands of course!). By the way, what is a pitot tube? Oh, and I never did get around to commenting on your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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