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Old 29th May 2011, 01:01
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Metal Tubes?

Interesting discussion. Central to all of this was the failure of the Pitots, it seems. Excuse my ignorance but in the 21st century, why do we still have to rely on hollow metal tubes to feed critical systems? Isn't it possible to feed such information as air speed from GPS or other more sophisticted satellite systems?
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