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Re: Image comments for You've always wondered what would happen if.....
Posted by: destructor
Date: 31/10/2005 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..
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