ASW 27 destroyed by lightning in trailer

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 12:31:34 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
The attached letter from Schleicher reads...

...The best would be to cut the fuselage in pieces...

It's nice how they say the best thing would be to cut it up, but without offering to actually buy it for that purpose.

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 4:46:02 PM UTC-5, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 12:31:34 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
The attached letter from Schleicher reads...

...The best would be to cut the fuselage in pieces...

It's nice how they say the best thing would be to cut it up, but without offering to actually buy it for that purpose.

SAWZALL!!!!!!!

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 3:06:53 PM UTC-7, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 4:46:02 PM UTC-5, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 12:31:34 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
The attached letter from Schleicher reads...

...The best would be to cut the fuselage in pieces...

It's nice how they say the best thing would be to cut it up, but without offering to actually buy it for that purpose.

SAWZALL!!!!!!!

Party at Bob's. Can we crowdfund it?

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 4:46:02 PM UTC-5, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 12:31:34 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
The attached letter from Schleicher reads...

...The best would be to cut the fuselage in pieces...

It's nice how they say the best thing would be to cut it up, but without offering to actually buy it for that purpose.

Why would Schleicher want to buy one of their own "toasted" gliders? A destructive tear down inspection by the engineering teams as an academic exercise? To what end? To design a fix to allow a glider to survive this seemingly rarest of event?

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

At 13:02 26 September 2019,
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

Is an "expiring mind" a form of memory loss?

At 13:26 26 September 2019, John Perry wrote:
At 13:02 26 September 2019,
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

Is an "expiring mind" a form of memory loss?

How about a Faraday cage if the trailer is matal skined, the
the glider should be safe inside it.
KF

At 13:02 26 September 2019,
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

Is an "expiring mind" a form of memory loss?

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

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...