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Old September 27th 19, 02:31 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default ASW 27 destroyed by lightning in trailer

On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 6:02:34 AM UTC-7, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
Question: Would a CF glider in an aluminum topped trailer have survived a lightning strike?

Expiring minds want to know (that happens to own a '27 stored in an aluminum Cobra trailer).

- John


I don't think that this would have happened to an aluminum-topped trailer because the trailer would have acted as a Faraday cage, and the current would flowed thru the trailer and around the glider.

Tom