Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [64.4.23.62] (HELO hotmail.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b8) with ESMTP id 2420828 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:46:12 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:46:11 -0700 Received: from 216.61.195.1 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:46:11 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.61.195.1] X-Originating-Email: [bucker131@hotmail.com] From: "Andres Katz" X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net X-Original-Bcc: Subject: lighitning X-Original-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:46:11 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html X-Original-Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jun 2003 13:46:11.0521 (UTC) FILETIME=[266E5310:01C331B2]


I described my episode with electrical discharge on prior communications while flying my IV-P below clouds in the Texas summer. Got hit in the wingtip along the attachment screws and melted the plexiglas covering the lights. Strong enough to dissolve the resin underneath and we followed the trajectory of the electrical discharge from the entry along the attachments into a second screw holding the plexiglas. we had to replace to screws and I am waiting for a major paint session to repair the damage. My radios did not suffer any damage and I did not hear a thing but smelled burned resin wich prompted me to return to the airport and inspect for damages. I have a full lenght aluminum tube running along the leading edge of the wing which carries all electrical conduits to the fuselage.

andres 18AK



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