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At 02:04 PM 11/9/00 -0500, Hugh Haskell wrote, regarding the "static port"
used for altimeters and such:
The opening is usually
angled a little toward the rear of the plane and set flush to the
skin of the plane, so it is essentially measuring the pressure in the
boundary layer, where the air is not moving, relative to the plane.