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MIT engineers design simulation tool to predict lightning strikes on modern aircraft

R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...
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Lightning-prediction tool could help protect the planes of the future

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...
Labroots

MIT creates physics-based tool to predict lightning on future aircraft

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in ...
Flying

How Can an Aircraft Get Struck by Lightning Without a Close Thunderstorm?

Studies show that about 90 percent of the lightning strikes to aircraft are thought to be initiated by the presence of the aircraft itself. [Credit: iStock ] Question: A friend of mine was flying a ...
JSTOR Daily

TACTICAL DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT INFORMATION FOR AIRCRAFT LIGHTNING AVOIDANCE

Vol. 100, No. 8, ANGLE of APPROACH: ACTIVATE's Strategies for Airborne Cloud and Aerosol Study (August 2019), pp. 1443-1452 (10 pages) Did you know that aircraft can cause lightning? Researchers began ...
Aviation Week

Lightning Damage to Aircraft, Part 2

Our study of aircraft lightning strikes determined that engines were flamed out in a total of 5% of the incidents involving turbojets, and in 8% of those involving turboprops. Propellers or spinners ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Aircraft out of service after possible lightning strike

SO WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THAT PLANE NOW? WELL, ANTOINETTE AT THIS HOUR, THE AIRCRAFT IS OUT OF SERVICE AND UNDERGOING AN INSPECTION AS IS PROTOCOL IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ...