Measurements were made of the pressures in flattened, blunt-nosed pitot tubes, in an air stream at Reynolds numbers from 13-1,000 (based on the external height of the tube). Three tubes were used, having cross sections with ratios of width to height (W/H) of 3, 7 and 11.
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F. A. Macmillan (1954) studied this question.