Originally Posted by onehundred80
Pitot tubes measure velocity.
Yes they do. But engineers, and crazy racers, innovate. I'm not dancing around with you on this one.
Except to ask, do you know how a pitot tube operates?
Exerpt From WIKI
The dynamic pressure is then determined using a diaphragm inside an enclosed container. If the air on one side of the diaphragm is at the static pressure, and the other at the stagnation pressure, then the deflection of the diaphragm is proportional to the dynamic pressure, which can then be used to determine the indicated airspeed of the aircraft
The important word here is "
dynamic."
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