Ditchy, Snap! Also struck twice, once in a Sea King 4 and again in a Jet airliner.
Westland reckoned a lightning strike with the composites would probably be catastophic. I'm pleased to say that they were wrong. There was some damage to the titanium leading edge strip, buthat was all. Taking Lu's point about oil, I seem to remember that the Wessex5 (and possibly the SK4) used O135 in the engines and O127 in the gearboxes. The reason given for the gearbox choice was that it was conductive. Anyone shed light on this?
In the jet it was much more scary, with burning smells, and a very loud bang and flash. Oddly enough, no damage whatsoever.
One thing in common. In both cases the first words were 'What the F*c* was that?'
