ASW 27 destroyed by lightning in trailer

On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 9:31:39 PM UTC-4, 2G wrote:
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


Whatever the trailer was made of; That glider was at the wrong place at the wrong time...

And, lightning does not take the least path of resistance. It takes many paths... Unlucky for this poor soul... One of the pics has my 27 inside the hangar..!!!! She likes it there...

I know of an aluminum glider that was struck by lightning once. The strike came through the wing cover at the wing tip and then jumped across the tire to the ground. I suspect the hit traveled along the skin, rather than internally (controls/spar/etc), as the glider was inspected and flew again quite quickly.

Any other stories (aside from a cottonwood tree on my property that has been hit TWICE!)?

To limit future liability?

Needing a particular part, I have asked AIG who got the high bid on salvage in the past. They told me who received the high bid, but would not disclose what the high bid was.
JJ

Well, with such free advertising on RAS I bet the winning bid was relatively high

Ramy

On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 8:38:03 PM UTC-8, Ramy wrote:
Well, with such free advertising on RAS I bet the winning bid was relatively high

Ramy

How many volts and watts are in lightning?
Lightning can have 100 million to 1 billion volts, and contains billions of watts.
I looked up some lightning info and found this site.
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/...lightning/faq/

On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 11:38:03 PM UTC-5, Ramy wrote:
Well, with such free advertising on RAS I bet the winning bid was relatively high

Ramy

The people who are likely to be able to undertake projects like this watch the AIG site. I doubt RAS affected the bidding.
From the buyer of about two dozen "totaled" gliders.
UH

UH, your collection of totaled gliders saved me from being grounded an extra couple of month thanks to your canopy frame.
And the fear of being grounded for long time initiated my decision to start looking for a new glider, resulting in upgrading to a 29 six month later.
Thanks you!

Ramy

On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 5:43:23 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 11:38:03 PM UTC-5, Ramy wrote:
Well, with such free advertising on RAS I bet the winning bid was relatively high

Ramy

The people who are likely to be able to undertake projects like this watch the AIG site. I doubt RAS affected the bidding.
From the buyer of about two dozen "totaled" gliders.
UH

UH, how many of these two dozen gliders were returned to airworthiness and how many were parted out?

Tom

On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 7:19:39 PM UTC-5, 2G wrote:
On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 5:43:23 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 11:38:03 PM UTC-5, Ramy wrote:
Well, with such free advertising on RAS I bet the winning bid was relatively high

Ramy

The people who are likely to be able to undertake projects like this watch the AIG site. I doubt RAS affected the bidding.
From the buyer of about two dozen "totaled" gliders.
UH

UH, how many of these two dozen gliders were returned to airworthiness and how many were parted out?

Tom

3 became donors.
# 26 back from the dead is getting final painting now.
The ASW-27 helped save 4 others.
Still have 5 1-26E wings on the rack and enough stuff to do one more some time.
FWIW
UH