On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:37:13 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:05:48 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:58:47 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:03:43 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:14:45 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

I'm thinking at least sit still and everybody head under the
enclosures. until at least the lightning quits.

What say ye?

Not much you can do about it other than try to stay at the lowest
point in the boat, duck and cover.

I have an aluminum cuddy. Better than a glass bow rider, at least.

Casady

Bull****. Apparently, you have never seen (or had to repair) an
aluminum aircraft hit by lightning....

I was in one that got hit by lightning - a stretched DC-8.

The static discharge sticks on the wings were glowing with green
plasma for about two minutes after the strike. :)

I have pictures that I show students..... huge fricking holes in the
side of the A/C..... minor compared to the ecological disaster
perpetrated on the FO's seat.................

ROTFL!!!

I'll tell you, it's interesting when it happens. The guy sitting next
to me on the way back was a chopper pilot and when it happened, he
thought it wasn't a direct hit - he thought we got passed by and were
in the plasma cone rather than the direct path on a cloud-to-cloud
strike.

The reason he thought so was there weren't any holes anywhere on the
wings or cabin. :)

When I had my towers, I went through a whole bunch of gas discharge
connectors one summer and finally had New England Tower come over
and completely redo the ground system - buried a lot of #10 copper
wire in a grid, staked with 8 foot ground rods and each leg of each
tower was hard bonded to the grid. That helped a lot - the number of
strikes the following year went down significantly.

Don't ask me why.