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Old September 11th 03, 04:27 PM
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From: (Walt BJ)


Gentleman, the F4E does indeed have static ports, two of them. They
are located ON the pitot boom.

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Walt BJ

Walt, that's why I referred to it as the "pitot-static" tube. I guess I could
have been more clear in referring to static ports as a separate entity. I was
referring to the static ports flush mounted on the fuselage eg; KC-135. The
KC-135 has pitot tubes and the static ports are elsewhere on the fuselage. A
pitot-static tube has static ports a few inches back from the inlet as in F-4E,
T-39 etc.

As for the static ports on the F-4E pitot-static tube there were 4 small holes
in pairs on opposite sides of the tube IIRC(it's been 23 years since I last
worked on an F-4E). In any event the ports were all routed to a single fitting
extending out the back of the pitot-static tube coaxially with the pitot
fitting and heater connector. The pitot and static fittings were -4 and were
connected to lengths of nylon tubing running aft along the right side of the
radome.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired