Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi (Jul 2021)
Wind Tunnel Tests for a Pitot-Static Probe Designed to Measure Aircraft Speed and Altitude at Subsonic Compressible and Transonic Regimes
Abstract
A pitot-static probe to measure speed and altitude of aircrafts over a range of flight speeds from 0.5 to 0.95 Mach was designed by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses and its tests were carried out at ITU Trisonic Wind Tunnel. The goal of the design studies is to achieve acceptable low error rates in both speed and altitude measurements. The purpose of the wind tunnel tests is to verify the results obtained from the CFD analyses and to determine the characteristics of the designed probe under real flow conditions. In this paper, the parameters used in the design and their effects on the measurement performance of the probe are discussed. In addition, wind tunnel testing methods applied to obtain the characteristics of the designed pitot-static probe with high accuracy are given in detail in this article.
