Similar words: pitot tube, mitotic, piton, spit on, spit out, epitope, epitome, capitol. Meaning: n. 1. French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771) 2. measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow.
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(31) The cost of a pitot probe is not high — about $3, 500 each for the model on Flight 447, which disappears in the $200 million cost of a plane — but their importance would be hard to overstate.
(32) As I asked repeated questions about the pitot probes, the service bulletins and the search delays, they responded either in prepackaged talking points or by saying they had no comment.
(33) After pitot static vents of total static pressure system are covered, the real airspeed, Mach number and pressure altitude are not displayed from cockpit instrument, and the accident might happen.
(34) French investigators have focused on the Airbus 330's speed sensors, called pitot tubes, which may have malfunctioned.
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