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Loose rivets
To pick a nit: The above would be a pitot/static tube, mostly used on small aircraft. In larger aircraft the little hole in the side is a drain, the pressure loss from that is allowed for. The static measurement hole is in a flat plate, a large and very well engineered sensor.
Yes indeed.
The poster referred to "wind speed" but pressure is really what is measured here so I wanted to show a basic example of the pitot static system. Don't know who fly and who are SLF on this forum.
The pitot system is also fed into the ADC's where static pressure is provided by the static ports around the fuselage. Just like my 747-400.