Questions tagged [measurement]
Questions about various forms of measurement used in aviation
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What are the common sensors/ways that reverse thrust is measured for turbines?
I am looking for a sensor to measure reverse thrust on a small hobby turbine engine, a jetcat p100-rx. I did not find clear ways industry measures reverse thrust from previous searches online and was ...
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What is the EGT probe output tolerance?
What is the 'average' or general tolerance (+/-) for EGT probes output on a 'typical' commercial turbofan engine?
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Sensors used on a blade
How to measure the strain, temperature and rotational dynamics on a running engine fan blade? How can you do the experiment?
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Modern method to verify speed of a homebuilt aircraft
Summary: In 2001, airspeed of homebuilt aircraft was calculated by flying in a ⊔-shape and using trigonometry to subtract wind effects. Now that we have portable computers, is there a more modern ...
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How long should a pitot tube extend from the wing?
It seems that most of the pitot tubes are "L" shaped. However, there are some pitot tubes that shapes like a straight pipe. I am wondering that, for a straight pitot tube installed on the ...
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If the altitude of the aircraft is given by the pitot tube, in icing condition with heat on, how is real altitude /speed interpretation done? [duplicate]
If the altitude of the aircraft is given by the pitot tube, in icing condition with pitot heat on how is real altitude /speed interpretation done? Because the air density and temperature is not ...
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Fighter Jets speed [duplicate]
How does an aircraft measures (or calculates) its speed while in air? Which equipment or sensors are used for measurement of speed? Does it takes Earth as a reference frame for its speed measurement ...
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Viewing and capturing real time values of Tachometer measuring instrument on television set and computer monitor in Aircraft and Automobiles [closed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachometer
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE2500376A1/en
Is it possible to view and capture real time values of a Tachometer in Aircrafts, Automobiles, Spacecrafts, ...
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Why are pitot-static measurements preferred over other velocimetry techniques?
I believe hot wire anemometers (HWA, frequently used in wind tunnels to measure flow velocity) or other sensitive techniques could be used to determine the airspeed. Are there specific reasons for why ...
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How does a synchro resolver converter work?
There are Synchro converters or transducers used on aircraft to measure angle of attack using 3 sinusoidal inputs. I could not understand where these 3 inputs come from and what angle information is ...
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What is the effect of altitude on true airspeed?
I know that wind is taken into account when we compute the TAS(true airspeed) and GS(ground speed). However what is the relationship between the TAS and altitude?
For example: What is the true ...
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What is the relation between altitude and vertical speed?
I recently saw 2 graphs on a flight path on BBC, shown below. For those interested, it's the path of the recently crashed Boeing 737 max flight ET302, but that's irrelevant to my question.
My ...
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Pitot tube model
EDIT: Background on my application
I am making a few measurement models for an extended Kalman filter (EKF). The EKF is meshing an INS and a GPS currently, but the GPS update rate does not update ...
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How is the camera positioned for these plane-to-plane Schlieren images of shock waves?
These two popular press articles discuss the use of schlieren photography to image shock waves of jets during flight using a special schlieren camera on a third plane.
Gizmodo: NASA Captures First-...
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How to calculate DDM in a ILS dual frequency system?
I'm working in a project where I have to process ILS baseband signals. I have no problem obtaining DDM value from single frequency signals, nor the individual components of a dual frequency signal (...
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Where is the wing sweep angle measured from?
If you look at a 747 planform wing you see something like this:
In several aerodynamics and aircraft design text books they use the wing sweep angle as an important parameter to measure the wing ...
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How to compare two SFCs, one in thrust, the other in power (both turbofans)?
I want to compare some recent turbofan engines in terms of fuel efficiency, particularly the PW535A and FJ44-4.
I found the SFC for the PW535A to be 0.44 lb/h/lbf. I couldn't find anything on the ...
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How is windspeed scaled in wind-tunnel tests?
Let's say you have a scale model that is 1:10th the size of the real thing. You want to test this in a wind-tunnel.
Do you also scale down the windspeed 10x? Why or why not? I would think it has to ...
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What is the unit for ground speed reported by ADS-B?
Strangely enough, I'm having trouble finding the unit reported by ADS-B on the Internet. Many sites simply refer to it as "ground speed". Is it measured in KPH?
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How to find the measurement of how far Tail plane to Center of gravity of the aircraft?
How do you find the measurement of Piper Archer Tail Plane distance to the center of the gravity.
Google really doesn't help me... maybe you guys know some website that has databases of small ...
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How does Kalman filtering work in inertial navigation systems?
As far as I understood it correctly most INS-systems use a Kalman filter to compensate measurement errors.
I would like to know:
Does the Kalman filter compensate the errors from all the onboard ...
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How is the wind direction and wind speed measured in flight?
Most large aircraft have a wind direction and wind speed indicator. How is this measured? The vector difference between TAS and ground speed? How accurate is this?
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How is horsepower measured for aviation piston engines?
As far as I can tell, aviation piston engine power output is typically measured in HP (horsepower).
Automotive engine power output is typically measured by running the host vehicle on a rolling road, ...
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Is there an explanation for the measurement system used in aviation? [duplicate]
Why is speed measured in knots (as opposed to kmp/h or mp/h), and distances in nautical miles? Is there a reason for following such a system?
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Is there a database of airport ceilometer raw data?
I am interested in obtaining raw ceilometer data, to test some cloud/aerosol layer identification algorithms.
Is this type of data freely available or will I need to ask for it directly from the ...
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Are there any companies that use atom interferometers in aircraft?
Are there any companies that use atom interferometers in aircraft? If so, are they used for navigation? If not, is it possible to assemble it?
Here is the link from wiki Atom interferometer and link ...
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Still using knots, nautical miles, inches of Hg. Is that impossible to switch to SI units? [duplicate]
Why doesn't the aviation industry use SI units?.
I believe only a few countries use meters and other SI units in air transportation, including India and China (please correct if wrong).
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Does European airspace use the metric system?
I figured this was probably a no brainer, since Europe uses the metric system, I assume the airspace does... But then I remembered that aviation likes international standards, and I know the US uses ...
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What do aerodynamic flow cones measure?
This picture of an Airbus A350 test aircraft shows multiple instruments on the flap fairings, wing fairing and on the empennage:
Source: A380_TLS_A350 AIB199GG (high-res version)
They are being ...
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Which external instruments are visible on the A350's nose section?
Most pictures of airliner's nose sections show small dark tube- or fin-shaped instruments sticking out of the fuselage below the cockpit windows.
For example this Airbus A350 shows them well:
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What is the coordinate system used in an Aircraft?
I know that from nose to tail the aircraft is divided by STA (station). At least for Boeing and Airbus this is the case but I am not familiar with other manufacturers. However, there is also two ...
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Why doesn't the aviation industry use SI units?
This is a followup to What is the measurement system used in the aviation industry? and related to this question from History.
I can understand the arguments as to why adoption of SI units would not ...
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What is the measurement system used in the aviation industry?
I saw this question from History Stack Exchange and noted that the US is still using the imperial measurement system such as feet, miles and pounds.
Given that a plane may need to fly from one ...
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What are these acceleration parameters produced by the Inertial Reference System?
Following acceleration parameters are transmitted from Inertial Reference System (IRS) to Flight Control System (FCS):
Flight Path Acceleration
Along Track Acceleration
Cross Track Acceleration
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Who decides what measurement units are used for altitude, and why is there no standard?
I know that some countries (Russia and China for instance) use meters to measure altitude while the rest of the world uses feet. Why isn't this standardized around the world?
I guess all modern ...
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How can I estimate the minimum runway needed to take off with a hang glider?
I'm interested in short, or trick, take-offs - such as from platforms, tall trees, etc.
I think that I should have
a wind speed and direction measure
an understanding of my wing surface area
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