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Chuck Yeager-pitot tube
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 |
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"Ron" wrote in message om... 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 Ron, if you get IAS from a pitot tube then the lunes of ram have been wrong all along. 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. Yes he does. The time he came to see me, all the reaction he would have gotten was a snap to, a salute and "sir, yes sir". |
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"Ron" wrote in message
om 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. ;-) -- http://www.delversdungeon.dragonsfoot.org Remove the X's in my email address to respond. "Damn you Silvey, and your endless fortunes." - Stephen Weir I hate furries. |
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"Bill Silvey" wrote in message om... "Ron" wrote in message om 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. ;-) You mean the kind of pitot tube that produces two pressures to make IAS? The same kind Henri Pitot used to measure water flow? That would not be the kind the lunes of ram believe in. |
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote:
"Bill Silvey" wrote in message . com... "Ron" wrote in message om 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. ;-) You mean the kind of pitot tube that produces two pressures to make IAS? The same kind Henri Pitot used to measure water flow? That would not be the kind the lunes of ram believe in. John this is getting tiresome... -- -Gord. |
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"Gord Beaman" wrote in message ... "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Bill Silvey" wrote in message . com... "Ron" wrote in message om 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. ;-) You mean the kind of pitot tube that produces two pressures to make IAS? The same kind Henri Pitot used to measure water flow? That would not be the kind the lunes of ram believe in. John this is getting tiresome... Are you tired of playing the fool, Gord? |
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From: "Gord Beaman" (
"Tarver Engineering" wrote: snip Especially when describing what a Pitot tube is and what it does. ;-) You mean the kind of pitot tube that produces two pressures to make IAS? The same kind Henri Pitot used to measure water flow? That would not be the kind the lunes of ram believe in. John this is getting tiresome... -- -Gord. Gord, give up on tarver, now he thinks pitot tubes PRODUCE pressure. Not only that they produce TWO pressures. The poor man is beyond help. Dan, U. S. Air Force |
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"B2431" wrote in message
From: "Gord Beaman" ( "Tarver Engineering" wrote: snip Especially when describing what a Pitot tube is and what it does. ;-) You mean the kind of pitot tube that produces two pressures to make IAS? The same kind Henri Pitot used to measure water flow? That would not be the kind the lunes of ram believe in. John this is getting tiresome... -- -Gord. Gord, give up on tarver, now he thinks pitot tubes PRODUCE pressure. Not only that they produce TWO pressures. The poor man is beyond help. Dan, U. S. Air Force Moreover, he thinks they produce two pressures and produce airspeed as well. The man's beyond hope, he is. -- http://www.delversdungeon.dragonsfoot.org Remove the X's in my email address to respond. "Damn you Silvey, and your endless fortunes." - Stephen Weir I hate furries. |
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"B2431" wrote in message ... Gord, give up on tarver, now he thinks pitot tubes PRODUCE pressure. Not only that they produce TWO pressures. The poor man is beyond help. God what a moron. |
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"Bill Silvey" wrote in message . .. snip Moreover, he thinks they produce two pressures and produce airspeed as well. All that is required is a manometer to subtract dynamic pressure from static pressure to have IAS; both pressures being a product of a pitot tube. WWI rplanes did not even have IAS, until some French person put a pitot tube on his airplane. It is very simple and even a simpleton like Bill should get it. |
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