Aircraft pitot and static pressure sensing device and aircraft having the sensing device

US6038932A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Nord-Micro Elektronik Feinmechanik · DE
• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Hermann Wandel · Reutlingen, DE
• Michael Jost · Unterschleißheim, DE
• Helmut Sommer · Cologne, DE
• Robert Fischer-Wilk · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 1, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 21, 2000
• Expiry date: Oct 1, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01P5/165
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An aircraft pitot and static pressure sensing device and an aircraft having the sensing device, more particularly a fighter aircraft, include a plurality of pressure sensors disposed in a radome of the aircraft. In addition, a plurality of air intake ports is provided in the radome. The air intake ports are connected through connecting passages to the pressure sensors.