PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Instrument ID
Thread: Instrument ID
View Single Post
Old 29th Apr 2019, 07:42
  #15 (permalink)  
DaveReidUK
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 15,826
Received 206 Likes on 94 Posts
Originally Posted by India Four Two
Can someone explain the expanded scale between 1.0 and 1.1?
I assume that 50+ years ago, the Lightning's Machmeter was a purely mechanical instrument, unlike nowadays where there's an Air Data Computer in the loop doing clevr stuff.

Subsonic and Supersonic Flow through Pitot Tubes
DaveReidUK is offline