grity:
the place of the pitots is even sensible, the "static" pressure is not constant over the different places of the fuselage.....the selected place for the pitot is the first place with a static pressure near zero for "normal flight" .....up front is the static pressure higher, behind he is lower, this place is a very good place because the different between the mesured static- and the pitot-pressure shows(indicates) good the airspeed,
with higher AoA the pressure in the static port will get up, (and the correction for the speed) with higher AoA s converted into very difficult.....or impossible
Interesting graph, Grity; thanks.
I should have explained that my surprise was not at the fore-aft placement of the static ports on the A330, but their placement so low on the fuselage, maybe only 30-40 degrees off vertical centerline.
By comparison, the DC-10 static ports are at least 60 degrees off the vertical. FWIW, they are also about 47 feet aft of the nose, beneath the mid-cabin doors. The low speed static correction is less than the 300 feet of the A330; more like 240 feet, IIRC.
Also noteworthy is the lack of an airspeed input to the Stall Warning on the DC-10. It is based on AOA sensor, modified by flap discretes.