Chuck Yeager-pitot tube

Gee, if I subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure (as cited in
a previous message in this thread) I get a negative number . . .
Walt BJ

"WaltBJ" wrote in message
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Gee, if I subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure (as cited in
a previous message in this thread) I get a negative number . . .

How would that matter to a manometer?

"B2431" wrote in message
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Pitot port, a pitot tube is Henri pitot's invention and it provides both
static and dynamic pressure. Don't get too involved in Dan's mental
illness, Ed.


Tarver, time to put up or shut up. Cite one verifiable source, other than
you,

LOL

What a moron.

From: (WaltBJ)
Date: 10/8/2003 3:06 PM Central Daylight Time
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Gee, if I subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure (as cited in
a previous message in this thread) I get a negative number . . .
Walt BJ

Walt, consider the source
Maybe the aircraft was flying backwards?
Maybe the aircraft is flying about minus FL40?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

"WaltBJ" wrote in message
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Gee, if I subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure (as cited in
a previous message in this thread) I get a negative number . . .

By the way Walt, flow does what to pressure?

Yea, I know it is a double post.

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: (WaltBJ)
Date: 10/8/2003 3:06 PM Central Daylight Time
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Gee, if I subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure (as cited in
a previous message in this thread) I get a negative number . . .
Walt BJ

Walt, consider the source
Maybe the aircraft was flying backwards?
Maybe the aircraft is flying about minus FL40?

Maybe flow lowers pressure.

From: "Tarver Engineering"
Date: 10/8/2003 3:17 PM Central Daylight Time
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"B2431" wrote in message
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Pitot port, a pitot tube is Henri pitot's invention and it provides both
static and dynamic pressure. Don't get too involved in Dan's mental
illness, Ed.


Tarver, time to put up or shut up. Cite one verifiable source, other than
you,

LOL

What a moron.

As usual you resort to insults instead of backing your claims.

You are dismissed.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Sorry, I misspoke. Flight test nose booms pick up both TOTAL (via a
pitot tube) and static (via little holes farther back on the tube).

Tarver Engineering wrote:
"Jim Thomas" wrote in message
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Actually, flight-test nose booms pick up both Pitot (dynamic) and static
pressure. I'll bet the one on the X-1 did, too.


A pitot tube always picks up static and dynamic pressure; that is how Henri
Pitot measured the speed of rivers with his invention. Don't bother much
with Silvey, he is just a stay at home dad, with little eslse to do outside
trolling ram.


Bill Silvey wrote:

"Ron" wrote in message
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An interesting passage in General Yeagers book "Press ON".

" Just a ten inch steel shaft, once silvery, but now, after forty
years in various Yeager closets and attics, a kind of dull gray It
jumped out at me as something special.
It was the pitot tube off the Bell X-1
I picked it up and plopped down on the sofa. Normally, there's
nothing terribly special about a pitot tube, which is an instrument
that measures air pressure so that a pilot can find out how fast he's
flying. But according to the plaque it came mounted on, this
particular pitot tube had been on the nose of the X-1 on, as it said,.
"10-14-47." That's the day we reached Mach 1 . . .Murac Air Base . . .
That old plane part felt cool to the touch, but the memory it brought
back was of a little orange aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake bed
and shimmering in the Mohave Desert heat . . . the Glamorous Glennis,
I'd called the X-1.
The General has a way with words too, doesn't he.

Ron


Especially when describing what a Pitot tube is and what it does. ;-)

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"Jim Thomas" wrote in message
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Sorry, I misspoke. Flight test nose booms pick up both TOTAL (via a
pitot tube) and static (via little holes farther back on the tube).

I think you are mistaken about how the X-1 was instrumented.

I'll go with Yeager on this one.

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "Tarver Engineering"
Date: 10/8/2003 3:17 PM Central Daylight Time
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"B2431" wrote in message
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Pitot port, a pitot tube is Henri pitot's invention and it provides
both
static and dynamic pressure. Don't get too involved in Dan's mental
illness, Ed.


Tarver, time to put up or shut up. Cite one verifiable source, other
than you,

LOL

What a moron.

As usual you resort to insults instead of backing your claims.

What irony.