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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3161: Airspeed
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    11 days ago

    The Pitot tube doesn’t work as the ballon is moving (more or less) with the wind, i.e. both pressure tubes, the one for static pressure and the one for total pressure, in the Pitot tube experience (almost) the same pressure, resulting in measuring (almost) zero dynamic pressure and thus velocity.