cesiuminjector Report This Comment Date: October 30, 2005 11:16PM
no i havent - air planes are designed so that nothing happens
destructor Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 02:48AM
Actually that's what happens. Most of the current just passes through a long
thick copper rod through the fuselage, so there's no damage. The flash here must
have been caused by a particularly powerful lightning bolt, which damaged the
lightning rod during the strike causing the rest of the current to travel just
around the outside the paint and glass of the aeroplane..
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 03:18AM
Destructor is full of shit,long thick rod in the fuselage?There are static
discharge wicks on the trailing edge of wing tips and horizontal and vertical
stabilizer, but some strikes will leave small dark burn marks in the aluminum
skin.the long thick rod is not in the a/c.but in your ...
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 03:32AM
happens all the time, but it's cool every time! tank ya brother stone.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 04:21AM
Bet it took a hot ticket to get on that flight!
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 05:29AM
I like that it shows the 'pre-bolt'.. with multiple stream (protons?) reaching
down to the airplane, forming the initial path.. THEN the main bolt comes
blasting through. I wish I could find more stuff like this FD.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 05:19PM
The lightening travels along the outside of the fuselage. As this is made of
aluminium, it is a superb conductor of electricity and hence little, if any,
heat is produced. This means that little, if any, damage is done. Furthermore,
the fuselage acts as a Farraday cage (look it up) which completely protects
everything, including occupants, inside the aircraft.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 09:02PM
turns the plane into a telsa coil
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2005 09:36PM
and the bolt comes up not down
cesiuminjector Report This Comment Date: November 01, 2005 02:56AM
this is true
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: November 02, 2005 05:45PM
20138 said : turns the plane into a telsa coil
Uhm, nope. Tesla coils are quite different. This is more of a Farraday cage,
as 168173 noted.
Scheich Report This Comment Date: December 14, 2005 04:57PM
it's called "farraday - käfig"
