lightning strike protection

What'd he say?
JJ

On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 4:37:48 PM UTC-5, wrote:
What'd he say?

Try not to get hit by lightning.

Let's ask KM what he thinks.

Chip Bearden

What if the whole wing is non-conductive (including spar and control rods)? Would that help?

There is still the fuselage to worry about. Cables and control rods and electrical wires (including radio antenna and its cable) and the pilot.

Ah, the joys of flying aluminum...

Boggs

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:37:46 -0800, johnsinclair210 wrote:

What'd he say?
JJ

I thought it boiled down to "don't put short bits of insulator in metal
push-rods".

I read the BGA advice as "use stiff non-conducting tubes for aileron
pushrods and restrict the use of metal to the end fittings on them"
because this would stop the push-rods from being used as conductors which
generate enough ohmic heating the blow the wing skins off.

However, I don't have the background to understand whether this would
prevent the aileron-aileron linkage (via the in-fuselage control
connections) from acting as a lightning short-circuit without somehow
causing the main spars to take over as the prime short circuiting element.

Over to you, Mr. Firth


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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To paraphrase:Â* If you see a bolt of lightning coming your way,
immediately go to negative flaps and dive away to outrun the stroke.Â* If
you're flying an unflapped ship, you're screwed.

On 11/13/2017 2:37 PM, wrote:
What'd he say?
JJ

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Dan, 5J