An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation into an airspeed indication failure during the take-off of a Malaysia Airlines A330-300 has led to several safety changes. The incident took ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Demand for a fuselage-mounted probe that reads the speed of planes is booming for an 84-year-old privately-held Cleveland company. Aero-Instruments was wrapping up an exacting ...

A new study finds that invasive keyhole wasps at the Brisbane Airport were responsible for instances of fully blocked replica pitot probes -- vital instruments that measure airspeed. The results ...

The 0851HL-AI probe is the company’s third PMA’d pitot probe; others are available for the Boeing 737 Classic and 757. Typically, Aero-Instruments PMA pitot probes cost less than the original ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FAA today issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) on Airbus A330s and A340s that requires replacing certain Thales Avionics pitot probes with certain Go ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency on Aug. 10 issued a proposed airworthiness directive that would mandate operators of Airbus A330/A340-family of aircraft to remove all Thales P/N C16195-AA pitot ...