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Old 02-11-2011 | 05:39 PM
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Default RE: Full size test flight rudder streamer

It's called a trailing cone pressure transducer. Trailing cones give an easy way of calibrating the static pressure error of a pitot-static system.

Here are a couple of info sites.

http://www.spaceagecontrol.com/news100100.htm
http://spaceagecontrol.com/trailing-cone.htm

Hope that helps.

Roy