Aircraft Lightning Protection Market size valued at USD 3.09 billion in 2019 and will grow at a CAGR of 3.1% from 2020 to 2026. Favorable trends associated with the tourism sector will propel the ...

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 ...

Sferics devices (e.g., Stormscope) remain valuable by providing real-time, immediate detection of both cloud-to-ground and intracloud lightning with a rapid refresh rate, serving as a critical ...

The moment a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt struck an aircraft at low altitude. Notice that the lightning bolt entered the aircraft near the forward part of the fuselage and exited near the tail.

The F-35 Lightning II is perhaps the best example of the indomitable human spirit. Regarded as the most advanced fighter jet to date, this aircraft is truly one of the pinnacle weapons of any military ...

Lightning hit the tail of an aircraft stopped on the tarmac at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas over the weekend. After 46 years, a family thought they had ...

In the 1980s, I worked as an avionics supervisor at Hayes International Aircraft Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. A Boeing KC-135 test pilot on return from a test flight told me in a debriefing that they had ...

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 ...

This was the first ever time a two-ship F-35B was spotted at low level in the Low Flying Area 17. Fortunately, photographer Simon Pearson-Cougill was there and took the shots you can find in this post ...

When English Electric finalized the P1B design in the mid-1950s, the Royal Air Force suddenly had a weapon that looked less like a fighter and more like a manned missile. Gone was the oval nose intake ...

Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighter jets were struck by their namesake while flying high over Japan. Neither pilot was injured, though the two planes collectively incurred more than $2 ...

While Nimitz– and Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest warships ever built, a Lightning Carrier can be comprised of a Wasp-class LHD assault ship, transporting twenty-six F-35Bs. This number ...