Crash Relic: Pitot Tube, Luftwaffe Bf 109 P-3 Orion The complete assembly is suspended

The complete assembly is suspended in gimbals

Mounted within the ball turret at the right foot of the ball turret gunner (see photo)

or bright sun

to turn the aircraft to put it on the desired course as set in the autopilot system

Here is an early WW2-era Airspeed Indicator with a maximum airspeed of 200 MPH

Crash Relic: Pitot Tube, Luftwaffe Bf 109 P-3 Orion The complete assembly is suspendedHere is a WWII era aircraft Pitot Tube crash relic, as used in aircraft of the German Luftwaffe such as the Bf 109 Fighter, and recovered from a crash site in Poland. Typically mounted on the wing of the aircraft, the pitot tube was employed by pitot statically driven instruments to perform their function, e. g., airspeed indicator, vertical velocity rate of climb indicators, and altimeters by measuring the differential pressure across two orifices as