MaC,
I took my first known strike in Feb last year. The F/O was the pilot flying a BAe146-200 - analogue instrumentation.
Whilst completing some paperwork I noticed him duck. This was followed by a flash and an almighty bang. Once the F/O's heart started beating he advised that the lightning had struck the nose, near his windshield wiper post.
Sadly there was no damage to the aircraft or any of its components. It was a dog of a machine and whilst we didn't want it to fall out of the sky, we wouldn't have been at all sad if it was determined upon inspection, to be unsalvagable.
Oh, and after we'd landed and disembarked the pax, the F/As advised that they, and many of the pax had seen a fireball pass down the starboard side of the aircraft, outside not inside.