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Who cares who thinks I'm wrong or right. I don't. :) The aircraft with the protection of a Faraday cage will always ground because if it couldn't ground it wouldn't strike the aircraft, electricity will always take the shortest route with the least resistance. Not in modern day commercial aircraft, like the Airbus in question considering on average each commercial airline gets hit by lightning once a year they should be dropping out of the skies. Is there any chance of a link to those pictures of aircraft with missing control surfaces from ESD strikes. Yes they probably did save it that's why those insulation liners are there. When ESD conducts with the aluminium shell of a modern commercial aircraft I'd expect to see arcing, pitting and burning and small holes. According to me? naaa according to Faraday. I looked but couldn't find a thing, have you got a link for that information? Again, ESD will ALWAYS ground from an aircraft that uses a Faraday's cage for protection. It is IMPOSSIBLE for it not too. None that are made of metal. ESD will always go the shortest route with the less resistance. If the bolt entered the interiour of the aircraft he'd be dead, Are you sure that by entered he didn't mean struck?, Now I'd beleive turbulence could take the wing off an aircraft but a lightning bolt??? wtf!.

nscode volts and amps are bound to each other as Ohm's law states but it is amps that kills. Forgot too add the reason why DC is more dangerous. https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4774 50,000 volts with 133mA wont kill you. If you want a bit more precision increase the amps to probably 500Ma and your a dead man, It was just an example for arguments sake. http://www.tbotech.com/taser-specifications.htm X-man I can admit when I'm wrong and you're right that was a piss poor example. GGT it's a typo I meant cage.

Rather than posting that I don't know nothing about electricity explain what is wrong with that statement.

Volts don't mean a damn thing it's the amperage that causes damage. 250,000 volts at 0.5 amp wouldn't kill you, a perfect example of this is a stun gun, 110 volts at 200 amps will kill you instantly, DC is far worse than AC as well. Yeah Faraday got it all wrong. To this day all EMP protected electronics use Faraday cages maybe that's because it's so effective, for the last time you are 100% protected inside a Faraday cage. You are only a conductor in the air, it's exactly why bird's don't get electrocuted when they sit on high voltage high amperage overhead cables, the electricity flows harmlessly through the bird. Lol that's the best comment so far. Now I'd really love to see a lightning strike obliterate an aircraft that uses Faraday's law to protect it. A car has no direct earth because the tyre's are made of rubber which is an insulator, but it's the safest place to be in an electrical storm, because its a faraday cage, bud for your own sake stay away from your mains ok.

Whatever, I'm not going to argue my point anymore, if you can't accept that Faraday cages protect aircraft then so be it. What do you expect when 20K amps conducts with thin sheet Alu on a small point? think fuse wire, Here's a link if my words not good enough. The heat damage you see in that pic happens all the time. The important thing here is that the damage is on the outside show me some damage on the inside then you'll get my attention. http://www.popsci.com/breakdown/article/2008-06/electric-aviation-experience

It's a GRP nosecone, GRP is a poor conductor, That GRP nosecone is not part of the faraday cage and offers little protection. By looking at that picture it looks as though the ESD bolt has penetrated strait through the GRP nosecone and conducted onto the airframe below. Either way the flight control computer is not at risk, a conductor on the outside of a Faraday cage like a radar antenna and flight instruments are.

Seriously mate I'm not being argumentative but it's impossible, A faraday cage cannot earth on the innerside because it has no earth, all positive currents conduct from the closest point and the closest point of a faraday cage to earth is the outerside making it physically impossible, The only damage you can get from an ESD strike on a faraday cage is burn marks on the positive and ground entry and exit points which are negligible to commercial aircraft.

You cannot earth ESD on the innerface of a Faraday cage because it's impossible, it's just a conductor, it has no earth so it cannot earth, it's the reason why sitting in your car is the safest place in an electrical storm. The clip below shows the plane acting as a conductor. That Airbus should be bombproof against ESD.

I don't buy it either, that Airbus has a faraday cage that's intergrated into the fuselage, wings and engines. All avionics and critical systems are contained within the protection of the faraday cage too, that Airbus should be impervious to any type of ESD.

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The F-111 has an aluminium airframe, aluminium starts to deform from the physics of creep at mach 2.61, this is the reason why the SR-71 has a titanuim alloy airframe. The F-111's performance will be limited to the very maximum of mach 2.61.

I thought using launch override on a Russian fighter was for ditching weapons in an emergency!?.

There are many female pilots in service, the thread below has alot of pictures of female pilots. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/personal-gallery/girls-aircrafts-4063.html

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This is about an interview with Zoltan Dani not about the integrity of TV, and yes I do believe Zoltan Dani's statement.

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Lol EB1 Cri Cri v's a Mirage.

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Stress testing the SU-25 Russian style. http://www.sonicbomb.com/iv1.php?vid=su25_test&id=729&w=500&h=400&ttitle=Su-25%20Testing SU-25 footage. http://www.sonicbomb.com/xv1.php?vid=su25&id=716&s=40&w=560&h=420&ttitle=SU-25%20Frogfoot Database of short clips. http://www.sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=15&orderby=dateD http://www.sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=18&orderby=dateD

Yes IR optical command guidance was utilised, Col. Zoltan Dani states this cleary in his interview.

I watched the Zoltan Dani interview on sky, his interview was part of a documentary on stealth technology. I can't be 100% sure but I think this was the documentary that contains Dani's interview. The documentary was on Discovery 20/4/09 at 21:00 GMT. http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=1752 If you scroll down to the bottom of the page in the link below it states a lucky shot without the use of radar. Scrap the link above I now think it was this documentary I watched. One of these documentaries contains Dani's interview. http://military.discovery.com/convergence/stealth/article/article_02.html

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