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Old 12th Jun 2009, 07:36
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Michael Birbeck
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It it ain't broke don't fix it.

Surely we should be asking "how do we prevent the pitot, a device that has accurately helped measure airspeed for decades, from icing up in extreme conditions"?

The pitot design is relatively simple and cheap (in comparison to some proposed alternatives) and it works.