The airspeed indicator is an unreliable primary instrument for flight envelope awareness, particularly at low speeds, as characteristic speeds (like stall speed) vary significantly with G-weight ...

If you’re looking for a staunch advocate of attitude flying, you’ll find none better or more evangelical than Wolfgang Langewiesche in his classic Stick and Rudder. His sermonizing on the importance ...

The doomed Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea, killing 189 passengers last month, was found to have a malfunctioning air speed indicator for its last four flights – and, crucially, at the time ...

The Lion Air plane that crashed into the ocean last week had been experiencing a "technical problem" with its airspeed indicator, and the gauge had malfunctioned on the jet's final four flights, ...

My colleague Andy Pasztor, a master at crash-investigation reporting who covers the National Transportation Safety Board, has news this afternoon that problems with airspeed indicators may have led to ...

The January 29, 1939 Hammond Times (Hammond, IN) ran this piece about the super-fast airplanes of the future. The article quickly devolves into a debate about how trustworthy air speed indicators are.