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...to give the pilots conflicting information about their air speed. After two Boeing 757s went into the sea in 1996...had given the pilots conflicting information about their air speed because of blocked pitot-static systems. Continue... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/
...conflicting information about their air speed. After two Boeing 757s went...conflicting information about their air speed because of blocked pitot-static...receive conflicting information on air speed and possibly height as well, if... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/06/in-articles-earlier-this-month.html
...plane's computerised systems to misfire". By measuring air pressure, pitot tubes help the onboard systems calculate air speed. >> Read more: Air France Airbus crash: its last few minutes? After the Air France crash, Air France and Toulouse... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/16/236447/Air-France-Airbus-pitot-sensor-linked-to-two-fatal-crashes.htm
...investigations found that the external pitot tubes which feed air speed information to the onboard systems were blocked. ...pitot tubes after crash - Guardian Airbus warning on air speed Bookmark and Share Tags: air crashes learning... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/06/youre-flying-too-fast-and-too.html
...lost. The messages, according to the investigators, show that the pilots were getting conflicting information on their air speed, possibly because blocked pitot tubes. The BEA says that the pitot tubes are a suspected factor in the chain of events... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/07/what-the-air-france-airbus-cra.html
...investigators had learned that the air speed indicator failed to work at first...pitot tubes was blocked. Yet the air speed indicator appeared to work because...Inside the cockpit this caused the air speed indicator to deflect. Even though... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/12/236425/crash-one-birgenair-flight-301.htm
...tubes are sensors that feed data on air speed to the onboard systems which display...conflicting information on their air speed from the aircraft's Pitot tubes...were inconsistencies in the cockpit air speed data The auto-pilot was off... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/15/236424/air-france-airbus-crash-its-last-few-minutes.htm
...conflicting information about their air speed and altitude. Again, the pilots...is flying too fast. Then the air speed indicators seemed faulty. Confused...instruments. No altimeter. No [air speed indicator]. We declare an emergency... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/12/236431/crash-two-aeroper-flight-603.htm
...CREDIT REX Defective sensors which fed information on air speed to onboard systems were one possible factor in the loss...failures of computer systems which received information on air speed from the aircraft's pitot tubes. Investigators have... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/02/236750/air-france-airbus-crash-system-pitot-sensors-a-factor.htm
...have suggested there might have been a problem with the aircraft's pitot sensors. Pitot tubes feed information on air speed to the onboard computers which control the pilot's displays. Shortly before two Boeing 757 passenger jets crashed into... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/18/236500/airbus-crash-focus-turns-to-electronic-systems.htm

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... Jet pack adventurers attempt air-speed world record by Dave Rosenberg...recently made an attempt on a world air-speed record. Pilot Eric Scott hit a... Jet pack adventurers attempt air-speed world record Supercloud looms... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10241767-62.html

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...channels.3 The second factor that complicates designing a high density wireless LAN network is the fact that over-the-air speed decreases as distance from the access point increases. That is, the highest data rates (11 Mbps or 54 Mbps) are only... http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper248/
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