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Originally Posted by karr1008
Nah, it's a pitot tube. (kidding or not it may be real but for testing purposes only)Pitot-Static tubes, which are also called Prandtl tubes, are used on aircraft as speedometers. The pitot-static tube is mounted on the aircraft "or Camaro" so that the center tube is always pointed in the direction of travel and the outside holes are perpendicular to the center tube. On some airplanes the pitot-static tube is put on a longer boom sticking out of the nose of the plane or the wing.
here, read more:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/pitot.html |
That makes sense, so they can measure the camaro's mach number.