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Old October 6th 03, 05:15 PM
Ron
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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
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Old October 6th 03, 05:31 PM
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"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 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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Old October 7th 03, 01:21 AM
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"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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Old October 7th 03, 01:59 AM
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"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. ;-)


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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Old October 7th 03, 03:01 AM
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"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. ;-)


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...
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-Gord.
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Old October 7th 03, 03:06 AM
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"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. ;-)


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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Old October 7th 03, 03:53 AM
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From: "Gord Beaman" (

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


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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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Old October 7th 03, 04:04 AM
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From: "Gord Beaman" (

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


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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.

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Old October 7th 03, 04:22 AM
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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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Old October 7th 03, 04:26 AM
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"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
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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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