View Full Version : What is the Wire???
azzamang
18th Oct 2002, 06:35
Occasionaly when looking at pixs of aircraft in flight there is often an wire appearing as though it is hanging off the aircraft. What is this
i have seen many examples on Bea 146 in fligh, and also on airbuses during flight testing. Is it perhaps just for the testing phase??
Thanx:D
knobbygb
18th Oct 2002, 07:39
Not sure what you could mean. Can you point us to a few examples?
tom775257
19th Oct 2002, 16:22
I found this on a search at airliners.net:
Picture:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/201169/L/
Is that the wire you are talking about (the one from the vert.stab?)
If so, then this discussion would be of interest then:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/tech_ops/read.main/28469/
The person who replied said as follows:
It is called a trailing cone. It collects pressure data in the "free stream" near the aircraft during flight. It is used to calibrate the various systems during the flight test program.
cheers,
tom