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What Is This On The 787 Tail  
User currently offlineGolfradio From Canada, joined Jun 2009, 556 posts, RR: 2
Posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 3647 times:

I know this has to be for flight testing, but what is the conical object attached to the 787's tail?


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User currently offline474218 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 6340 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 3626 times:

Its a trailing cone, used to calibrate the pitot static system.

See: http://www.spaceagecontrol.com/news100100.htm

User currently offlineGolfradio From Canada, joined Jun 2009, 556 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 3567 times:



Quoting 474218 (Reply 1):

Thank you. Interesting link.

User currently offlineB777LRF From Luxembourg, joined Nov 2008, 1006 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 3508 times:

First flight, and they've already pimped it - it's a rabbits tail  Wink


From receips and radials over straight pipes to big fans - been there, done that, got the hearing defects to prove
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