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It does seem they are.. the obvious reason for having one on both wings would be redundancy, pitot tubes are not that reliable.. You need to check & inspect & c
by ben7799 6y ago
It does seem they are.. the obvious reason for having one on both wings would be redundancy, pitot tubes are not that reliable.. You need to check & inspect & cover/uncover them in preflight/postflight cause bugs & dirt and such can easily clog them.
AFAICT they're so huge to get them out of the pressure effects on the wing from supersonic/transonic flight.
The Mig-21 giant spike over the nose is the same thing apparently.
Pretty interesting. It seems like a lot of US jets just have/had a different solution to this problem.