Measure, static pressure
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- OBJECT TYPE
- Ambient
- DATE
- 1998
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2001.0608.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- A copper body with a rectangular opening and a cylindrical hole that goes through the center of the body; a synthetic tube on the top of the body; aluminium hollow rod with 4 black and grey fins at the end of the rod and an aluminium cap on the end of the rod; aluminium hardware.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 126.0 cm
- Width
- 19.0 cm
- Height
- 27.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
A rare piece of flight test history, used by several Canadian World famous test prototypes, Buffalo, Dash-7, Twin Otter and Dash-8 to name a few. - Function
-
It is used to calibrate the pitot-static system (airspeed and altitude). - Technical
-
It is a large piece of copper/aluminium, resembling a rocket/missile, with small fins at one end. The opposite extremity incorporates tiny pressure holes, collecting ambient static pressure while in flight. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None.
- Missing
- Nothing is missing.
- Finish
- A copper body with a rectangular opening and a cylindrical hole that goes through the center of the body; a synthetic tube on the top of the body; aluminium hollow rod with 4 black and grey fins at the end of the rod and an aluminium cap on the end of the rod; aluminium hardware.
- Decoration
- None.
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Unknown Manufacturer, Measure, static pressure, circa 1998, Artifact no. 2001.0608, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2001.0608.001/
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