How to pronounce “pitot” in English

You're measuring that with everything from load cells to pitot tubes to strain gauges.

He bounced off the nose needle, the pitot tube, and fell on to the tarmac, and he bent it 20 degrees downward.

For example, it lost its air data from the pitot tubes when they iced over.

Anybody who programs flight controls for UAVs will tell you that you could fly perfectly flying without pitot tubes, right?

And the most extreme case of that is the Air France 447 crash, where the pitot tubes iced up, the automation doesn't have the data it needs.

The MiG-23 is one those swept-wing fighters, big sharp nose, and a nose needle called a pitot tube which measures air speed.

The last picture in the roll, he had gone down the flight line and pulled down all the pitot tubes to match the first one.