What are those little rods that stick out of a planes fuselage? I noticed quite a few of them around the nose and cockpit area of a plane when I was at the airport and wondered what they were for, could someone please help.
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Thanks
Generally speaking you are most likely looking at the Pitot tubes



Some angle of attack indicators also look quite similar and in the case of some of the A380 the Pitot tubes and angle of attack indicator are combined into one unit.