Wizz Air UK has revised its return-to-service processes after an Airbus A321, whose crew aborted take-off at high speed, was found to have a pitot probe blocked by insect activity. The aircraft ...

The FAA on Sept. 3 immediately adopted an airworthiness directive requiring operators of Airbus A330- and A340-series aircraft to replace certain Thales pitot probes with Goodrich or new-design Thales ...

The RAP is a rugged, lightweight, hand-held averaging Pitot probe. The probe works by measuring and averaging the velocity pressure across a duct so that the user does not have to survey the duct ...

Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, The Associated Press has learned. But air ...

Australian investigators have concluded that an unreliable airspeed incident involving a Jetstar Airbus A330-200 was caused by ice obstructing at least two of the twinjet's pitot probes. The aircraft ...

Over a period of 39 months, invasive keyhole wasps (Pachodynerus nasidens) at the Brisbane Airport were responsible for 93 instances of fully blocked replica pitot probes - vital instruments that ...

Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the openings of devices used to measure the speed of aircraft. A recent investigation shows the problem is worse than we realized. On ...

Keyhole wasps are notorious for building their nests in manufactured structures, and they have now been shown to do this in devices mounted to planes that are crucial for measuring airspeed during ...

Aero-Instruments has recently made available its FAA PMA-approved Boeing 757 0851FJ-1-AI Pitot Probe. It is a direct replacement for the 0851FJ-1 or S232N911-2 pitot probes currently installed on all ...