Laser Air Speed Sensors
4,347 views · Published 12 September 2013 · 1:36 · Indexed 27 October 2026
Channel: UNSW · 2013 · Science & Technology
Please watch: "UNSWTV: Entertaining your curiosity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ7UO8nxiL0 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- As the world knows from the Air France Flight 447 disaster, air speed sensors can ice over in bad weather and lead to crashes such as the 2009 tragedy. Air speed sensors, also called pitot tubes, are a device on the outside of the aircraft that help to tell how fast the air craft is travelling. Professor Sean O'Byrne and team from UNSW Canberra have developed safer air speed sensors based on diode lasers - rather like the ones in your computer mouse. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSW Innovation playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50XnIfJxPDUxI66BsyzeHZnI88f_0OAm UNSW on You Tube The place for innovative ideas. News and research from UNSW, Australia's leading university focused on science, technology and the professions, enriched by the perspective of the humanities.
