On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:28:11 -0500, Larry wrote:

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NO lightning prevention system can prevent lightning from destroying the
boat....and still have a boat the waterline is below the toerail.
Lightning is hundreds of thousands of amps at billions of volts rising
from 0 in microseconds, creating an amazing electro-magnetic pulse,
which is what destroys all your electronic stuff. It only has to be
"close" to just blast it all to hell....
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Not strictly comparable to boat strikes are airliner strikes. The
usual result of these is a pin hole or two going in and leaving the
skin. That's aluminum skin planes. Glass planes need more careful
design.....

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

Brian Whatcott wrote in
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Not strictly comparable to boat strikes are airliner strikes. The
usual result of these is a pin hole or two going in and leaving the
skin. That's aluminum skin planes. Glass planes need more careful
design.....



Airplane strikes aren't the intensity of one that hits the MASSIVE electron
supply of Mother Earth. Ground strikes can make the top of a big broadcast
tower simply vaporize from the intense current supplied by the electrons in
the ground.

I don't think I've ever seen the results of a ground strike hitting an
airplane on the tarmac. That might prove more interesting.

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:51:08 GMT, Brian Whatcott
wrote:

Not strictly comparable to boat strikes are airliner strikes. The
usual result of these is a pin hole or two going in and leaving the
skin. That's aluminum skin planes. Glass planes need more careful
design.....
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I was in a large commercial jet that got hit by lightening at around
20,000 feet. It was an awsome experience. After several seconds of
totally stunned silence, everyone started looking around to see if we
were still alive. It took the pilot several minutes to get on the PA
system to announce the obvious and reassure us that all was OK. We
didn't know if he had been doing safety checks or just cleaning
himself up.

Wayne.B wrote in
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We
didn't know if he had been doing safety checks or just cleaning
himself up.


He was resetting breakers, trying to get the PA system back online...(c;