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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 11:36 pm
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Oh brother. There are at least two other ways of determining airspeed I can think of off the top of my head.

The GPS system will give you airspeed, also the pilot should have a rough idea of his airspeed looking at the power setting, and altitude.
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