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I was outside earlier having a fag and I happened to look up at a plane on approach to Edinburgh airport as it flew overhead.
The sky was heavy and dark and just spitting on to rain. As the plane passed under the cloud it must have just been enought to spark the lightening and it travelled via the plane and down to the ground about quarter of a mile away!
What a sight! Bloody loud too!
Right place at the right time! :)
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Treacle
26-05-10, 10:13 PM
Awsome, you luck git! I love heavy weather like that.
ChrisSV
26-05-10, 10:15 PM
sounds awesome, i need to start getin in the right places more, i miss everything
Right place at the right time! :smile:
Bet the people in the plane didn't think that! lol
Would they of known they had been hit by lightening? Presume planes have some sort of err anti-lightening shield haha??
Like batfink - his wings are shields of steel!! :cool:
barwel1992
27-05-10, 01:10 AM
^ planes have conductors or something on each wing to deal with the lightning
would have loved to see that :)
I was in a plane that got struck by lightning about 3 or 4 times.
Not the most fun I have ever had to be honest.
Specialone
27-05-10, 06:18 AM
I have been on a small jet, 70 seats i think, flying back into the states from mexico during a heavy storm, lightening all around us, plane up and down like a fiddlers elbow, wife was shatting herself, was good to experience, wouldnt want to again though.
BTW where's the pics ???
I was in a plane that got struck by lightning about 3 or 4 times.
Not the most fun I have ever had to be honest.Sorry we all know thats rubbish, because of the saying...Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice ;)
the_lone_wolf
27-05-10, 07:41 AM
Sorry we all know thats rubbish, because of the saying...Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice ;)
Unless it was mysteriously hovering it probably wasn't in the same place each time though...
;)
Would they of known they had been hit by lightening? Presume planes have some sort of err anti-lightening shield haha??
Like batfink - his wings are shields of steel!! :cool:
Faraday cage effect - they're totally enclosed by a highly conductive material, therefore no potential difference on the outside can affect the inside. Or something like that. Otherwise the fuel tanks would go pop.
Iansv II
27-05-10, 10:13 AM
Flew from city airport over to holland a few years back for work in a tiny fokker f50 and we got hit, didn't half made a loud cracking noise...
I'm usually fine with flying but I didn't enjoy the rest of that flight at all !!!
I thought it would be protected by something like that, cheers Ophic.
Just wondering if the people inside would actually know if they had been hit, any vibrations or anything that would go through the plane with it being protected?
I thought it would be protected by something like that, cheers Ophic.
Just wondering if the people inside would actually know if they had been hit, any vibrations or anything that would go through the plane with it being protected?
I'd guess it makes a huge noise and flashes of light etc, and thunder is loud enough to be heard for miles. Brown underwear for the uninitiated.
It's a fairly common occurrence though.
Theres more on this! Turns out that single lightning bolt frazzled the stereo of my plasterer who was 3 miles away! Small world!
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