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Volume 64, Issue 11
1 November 1992
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| November 01 1992

Portable Infra‐red Thermometer Improves Safety at Boeing Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1992
Aircraft Engineering (1992) 64 (11): 14.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb037308

BOEING are using IRCON ULTIMAX™ portable infra‐red thermometers to check heated pitot tubes mounted eight metres high on 747 aircraft fuselages by measuring the surface temperatures, remotely, from the ground.

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