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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:39:41 PM EDT
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now that is cool
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:39:56 PM EDT
[#2]
Wow, that is cool.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:40:39 PM EDT
[#3]
My dad was flying a Piper Malibu about 10 years ago and had lightning hit one wing tip and blow the lights out on the other
 I have been through several thunderstorms with him in the air over the years and I have to say you take a different perspective on lightning when you are looking down on it 
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:42:07 PM EDT
[#4]
that is pretty amazing
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:50:11 PM EDT
[#5]
That's one helluva Taser hit
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:54:38 PM EDT
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+1 Patty |
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:56:53 PM EDT
[#7]
Good Show.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 9:59:08 PM EDT
[#8]
Just curious... what happens to the plane?
navigation, radio, electrical, structure, passengers? everything goes like nothing happened? |
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:05:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:28:32 PM EDT
[#10]
I'll betcha anything that that was one "shitty" flight.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:36:15 PM EDT
[#11]
yowzers
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:37:22 PM EDT
[#12]
My dad is a airline pilot and has been hit by lightning just like that right on the nose of the plane and he said nothing happens to the plane...the passengers probably have no idea the plane was even hit.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:41:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2005 10:56:01 PM EDT
[#14]
If I'm not mistaken, since the plane isn't grounded, the lightning just kinda passes through the skin of the plane and doesn't really affect it at all.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 11:39:36 PM EDT
[#15]
Cool pic.
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Posted: 8/13/2005 11:46:32 PM EDT
[#16]
WOAH!
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Posted: 8/13/2005 11:53:35 PM EDT
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I cannot say what happened to that aircraft, but I have inspected two F-15s that were struck by lightning. Both of them suffered only structure damage, none of the electronics was damaged. One was stuck on the radome and had numerous small burn holes in the radome. I don't remember exactly where the other one was hit at but the lightning made some small holes in the right vertical stabilizer where it exited the acft. |
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Posted: 8/14/2005 12:15:25 AM EDT
[#18]
Cool as yesterday's toast
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Posted: 8/14/2005 12:16:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/14/2005 1:50:20 AM EDT
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i was on a plane while it got hit by lightning. it was storming pretty bad (for hawaii anyways). lots of rain and thunder/lightning. it was only a short 45 minute flight from one island to another. about halfway up after takeoff, i see a flash outside the window and at the same time the eintire plane started shaking. i expected to see the entire tail of the plane missing as i looked towards the rear. then everything calmed down and the pilot came over the radio saying we were just struck by lightning but everything is alright cause they use some kind of device to prevent us all from being fried. i don't quite remember his whole explanation as i was 10 at the time. but it was an interesting experience.
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Posted: 8/14/2005 1:56:58 AM EDT
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"....V2.......Gear-up.........So...like I was saying....Lisa's standing there in her Teddy and she says to me...ZZZZAAAAPPP!!!!!!!...What-The-Fuck!!!!!!!!........................"
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Posted: 8/14/2005 2:02:31 AM EDT
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I believe most planes have a metal mesh in the skin. Lightning will take the path of least resistence and go through the mesh instead of burning through to the electronics or people. The safest place to be in a lighning storm is inside a metal cage. |
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Posted: 8/14/2005 2:06:49 AM EDT
[#23]
wow!
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Posted: 8/14/2005 2:27:46 AM EDT
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I kept on looking on the cellar. There is the coolest picture of a praying mantis using its kung fu skills to impale a humming bird.
 Someone who's web fu is stronger should post that picture in its own thread. |
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Posted: 8/14/2005 2:28:06 AM EDT
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I was flying from Chicago back to London 4 years ago.
We took off from O'Hare and it was raining pretty heavily. As we took off, we were playing with a GPS that we had up against the window, trying to get speed and altitude. We had a wing seat and were looking out the window when the wing got hit by lightning. There was an almighty "crack" inside the plane and all the lights went off momentarily and the seat-back displays went off. They came back on later. As we looked around, everyone had this look of fear on their faces that I'll never forget. After we were flying for about 1 hour, my friend noticed that according to the map, the plane had turned round and was heading back. The lightning strike had blown the auto-pilot and we couldn't continue across the Atlantic. Luckily some of managed to get on the next flight out. The others were stuck in Chicago for 2 days. I don't want to experience that again Mark |
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Posted: 8/14/2005 3:39:52 AM EDT
[#26]
Coolio.
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Posted: 8/14/2005 4:06:05 AM EDT
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In 1998 I was flying back from CA to Washington DC and we were hit twice by lightening on the approach to Dulles. The pilot came on and said that the aircraft (a new 777) was designed to take lightening strikes and there was nothing to worry about. The first one was a loud bang off the right side and a big flash to go with it. It seriously got everyone's attention. The second one hit the nose, but was just as loud. I can tell you this, I have never been so glad to get off an airplane in my life. It was pouring rain and I walked about a half a mile to my car and got completetly soaked---but I didn't care one bit. I was alive!
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Posted: 8/14/2005 4:15:29 AM EDT
[#28]
Wow!
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Posted: 8/14/2005 4:32:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/14/2005 8:46:22 PM EDT
[#30]
That must have been quite a flash in the cabin.
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Posted: 8/14/2005 8:48:27 PM EDT
[#31]
Damn
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Posted: 8/14/2005 8:52:18 PM EDT
[#32]
I hate when that happens...
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