Thursday, April 13, 2006

Tight Focus


Any idea what this might be? Turns out that it's the very absolute tip of an F-16. Yep, the point at the very front of the nose. I guess those little tiny holes are for air sampling or something, I'm not sure. The diameter of the tip is about half an inch, if you're curious.

1 comment:

  1. you are correct. those openings are the inlets of the pitot tubes, which gage the difference between static pressure and dynamic pressure to determine the jet's airspeed.

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