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maxdrypower

28th March 2007 16:05

Hanging off thingy

Guys or gals in this modern age , when you se footage of airliners being flight tested they always seem to have an object trailing on a cable from the top of the fin ,what is that ?

Genghis the Engineer

28th March 2007 16:56

One of these?

http://www.mojaveweblog.com/photos/0...50916-17-8.jpg

It's a trailing static, used as part of the effort to calibrate the aeroplane's pitot-static system.

G

maxdrypower

31st March 2007 16:05

cheers curiosity satisfied ta

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