Watched a great doco on Discovery channel about sprite lightning. Google it or check this out.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn8733.html.
They think designers will have to rethink how much energy will have to be dissipated through bonding...
They are attributing it to a number of previously unexplained hull losses. One of them a Pan Am B707!
Interesting stuff!
Anyone seen ball lightning cruise down the cabin? Or is that the aviation yeti equvalent?
(Holding inside towering CU? Seriously?
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