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 ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator offers an unexpected learning lesson by demonstrating aerodynamic icing in flight as it affects the pitot-static system. [Credit: Shutterstock] I recently set out on a small ...

You'd think that drilling two small holes in an aluminum casting shouldn't take the better part of an afternoon. Yet… KITPLANES' editor at large, Paul Dye, is a ...

Every part of a fighter jet has a job to do. Even the tiny things that don't seem important at first, like that thin metal rod sticking out from the nose in jets like F-16, actually serve a purpose.

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 ...

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 ...