Originally Posted by Doors to Automatic
Does anyone know if aircraft can withstand a positive-charge lightning strike?
(this is much rarer than most lightning which is negative-charge but around 10 times stronger).
Not sure if this is the same issue, but my aircraft suffered an ‘inadvertent’ air to ground strike, i.e. we flew through an air to ground strike, as opposed to 'creating' the normal air to aircraft strike. According to the experts who came to view the aircraft this is a very rare event. The damage was slight, but there were some interesting patterns amongst the 160 or so, burn marks (razorback effect).