Talk:Pitot tube

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WikiProject Echo has identified Pitot tube as a foreign language featured article. You may be able to improve this article with information from the German language Wikipedia.

External links from Pitot, which now redirects here:

• Pitot Tube -- This one says it all in one diagram.

• eFunda: Theory of Pitot Static Tubes -- This is more exhaustive.

This article needs the pronunciation of Pitot adding.

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Current description is not exactly for a pitot tube, but strictly for a pitot static tube, isn't it? Some aircraft have separated (pure)pitot tubes + static ports. - Marsian / talk 01:21:18, 2005-09-02 (UTC)

It had both ports when Pitot invented it in 1732. One port or two, it is a Pitot tube either way. Meggar 05:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 parallel vs Perpendicular 2 rewrite 3 Pitot vs. pitot 4 External Sources 5 Marine use

[edit] parallel vs Perpendicular

I believe these terms are reversed in the description. WRT the diagram the air is being forced down the ceter tube while the outter tube is only exposed indrectly through the holes just as the description states. However wouldn't this make the center tube parallel and the outter perpendicular?

The face of the openings vs. airflow is what determines whether they are parallel or perpendicular I believe - so the centre tube's opening is perpendicular to the direction of airflow, and the outer tube's opening is parallel to the airflow. Hope that's clear? ZoFreX 23:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I think ZoFreX is right, however the context is somewhat ambiguous. I'm intending to give this article a serious overhaul when I get the time. Chrisd87 17:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rewrite

I've done a fairly major rewrite to this page, in an attempt to tidy it up and make it more accurate. I hope I've succeeded - this is the first time I've made such a large-scale edit to a wikipedia article. I'm intending to continue in due course and talk more about errors due to attitude and the like, and in time maybe translate the German article and incorporate that. Chrisd87 21:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Further to this, the image I have added in place of the previous one is translated from the German Wikipedia article. Work is currently underway to translate the other diagrams from that page for inclusion here. Chrisd87 21:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pitot vs. pitot

Although the Pitot/pitot tube is named after its inventor, Henri Pitot, predominant common usage is for "pitot tube" to be written in lower case (except at the start of a sentence, of course). This article capitalizes it throughout and recently an editor has gone through the Pitot-static system article to capitalized it throughout there as well. Isn't it Wikipedia policy to use the most common expression? Askari Mark (Talk) 18:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

My sources all show the worid pitot tube being in lower case. Including source in FAA documentation. Is that good enough to assume common use? I have other sources I can consult as well but I feel that they will all show lower case usage. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Sources

I am working on a semi re-write/expansion of this article, as well as work on the article on Henri Pitot. I am using this as kind of a staging area for sources I find related to this/these topics. If you find any good reliable ones, feel free to add them! Thanks -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC) a paper on pitot tubes

[edit] Marine use

Boats use pitot tubes to measure water speed, but this page makes no mention of that. -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)