airplane + lightning = high pucker factor

[etech]

I looked around and hadn't seen this posted.

Lightning strike triggered by a flying airplane

It sure must have been interesting to be on the plane when that hit. Do any of the pilots know what the effects would be on the planes electronics?

 

[Anubis]

this happens more then you would think. so they build in protection for it. dont know about bolts that size. that one was huge but they do take it into account

 

[Scarpozzi]

Dang....I don't know how that'd affect the plane....but SHEESH!

 

[crab]

Most likely, it did nothing to the airplane. They're built with lightning strikes in mind. On most of the airplane's trailing edges are small sticks or wires called static wicks (or dissipators). Most of the static electricity on the aircraft is drawn to the end of them, and released into the air...they also help do the same with lightning strikes.

 

[ScottMac]

Lightning doesn't affect most metal airplanes (Faraday's shield). When it hits a fiberglass airplane, it pretty much explodes.

NASA was doing research for years on putting some kind of metal mesh under the glass coat to collect/dissapate the energy.

In a storm that's producing lightning, it's usually the air currents that are the killers (for big airplanes - small airplanes can recover quicker -- if they survive).

FWIW

Scott

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Lightning doesn't affect most metal airplanes (Faraday's shield). When it hits a fiberglass airplane, it pretty much explodes.

NASA was doing research for years on putting some kind of metal mesh under the glass coat to collect/dissapate the energy.

In a storm that's producing lightning, it's usually the air currents that are the killers (for big airplanes - small airplanes can recover quicker -- if they survive).

FWIW

Scott

that is quite correct


hehe it just sounded awesomely smart so i just had to agree ...don't ya hate it when smart people make u agree w/ u just by brute brain power?....ahha but i'm not that stupid, i knew that airplanes had to have protection against these insane discharges from the sky..


but yeah neways, that sequence looks coooooooooooooooooooool