Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
To:  lml@lancaironline.net
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:50:22 -0500
Message-ID: <redirect-5360806@logan.com>
Received-SPF: neutral
 receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.94.237.90; envelope-from=browncc1@verizon.net
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084)
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Steam Gauge Backup
From: Charles Brown <browncc1@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-5357695@logan.com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
References: <list-5357695@logan.com>

Lightning strikes are fairly common in commercial airliners, and I could =
point you to a study that Boeing did that actually shows that lightning =
stroke initial attach points tend to be towards the front of the =
fuselage and engine nacelles, but during the brief course of lightning =
transmission they migrate backwards to a trailing edge before the stroke =
is depleted.  Wild stuff.  I believe that study was done in the 1980s =
involving a 737-300 series airframe, and I forget how they got the data =
(they did NOT go lightning-hunting in an airplane) but they did publish =
it in their safety magazine that's given out among their customer =
airlines. =20

I've never been hit by lightning in a light plane but I flew very close =
to an incredibly active *dry* lighting storm at night halfway from El =
Paso to Dallas in a 310 and got St Elmo's Fire radiating from the prop =
tips and tip tanks.  Spooky-cool, it was purple-blue, very faint, and =
had no effect on the 1970s vintage avionics -- VORs, a DME, HSI, =
autopilot, ILS, ADF, RMI.


On Jan 20, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Andres Katz wrote:

I have been struck while flying twice, once it melted the lens on the =
iv-p and blew open the wing extension, the second time in a 737 landing =
in dfw,=20
Once in a million? I guess I am unlucky

Sent from my iPad