This is why i wear a St. Christopher when i fly.

\jesus is my co-pilot

Before you answer, the drinks are $15.

I need 3, please.

somebody wasn't paying attention to Tesla. Sounds like the airbus has a grounding flaw. Airplanes get hit by lightning all the time. OR, someone was flying where they shouldn't have been, weather wise.

Not me. I'm already drunk.

/Ah, what the hell, tequila ceasar barkeep.

jjpat:boobies

You think you're so farking clever don't you?

Before you buy your next jet, check PlaneFax to find out if it's ever been hit by lightning and the body shop fixed the burn marks.

FTFA: "...and not all lightning is associated with storms."

A guy I worked with a couple of years ago had his car roof blasted by a bolt from the blue.

He was driving down a quiet country road, not a cloud in the sky, perfect, sunny spring day, when all of a sudden, *BLAM*, like his car just exploded - so he quickly stops and gets out. He couldn't see anything until he got out, but then he realised that there was a residual thunder noise dissipating in the sky, and then he noticed a dinner-plate-size patch of smouldering burned paint on the roof.

/Freaky shiat
//But it happens

Lights that flash in the evenin'... blew a hole in the plane....

My plane got hit by lightening on the approach to O'Hare. I was staring out the window when it struck and couldn't see for several minutes. I turned to my seatmate and asked "Is the wing still there?" He said "I'm not sure"

/He was looking out the window too.

FTA:"A New Zealand report quoted a witness as saying the strike caused a hole "the size of a dinner plate", although the plane landed safely."

Remember this the next time there's a debate over allowing guns on planes and all the idiots scream about the plane falling apart if a bullet penetrates it.

.. also, we're out of coffee.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I always pick an airline named after computer hardware and something that makes me poop liquid fire. You can't go wrong.

I was in an Canada CRJ 200 thing over Ohio when we got hit, and other that a 'flash' - 'bang' - 'oh sh*t' (from some dude) nothing else happened. They didn't officially announce it until we landed.

Melgania:FTFA: "...and not all lightning is associated with storms."

A guy I worked with a couple of years ago had his car roof blasted by a bolt from the blue.

He was driving down a quiet country road, not a cloud in the sky, perfect, sunny spring day, when all of a sudden, *BLAM*, like his car just exploded - so he quickly stops and gets out. He couldn't see anything until he got out, but then he realised that there was a residual thunder noise dissipating in the sky, and then he noticed a dinner-plate-size patch of smouldering burned paint on the roof.

/Freaky shiat
//But it happens

Whoa. That is some scary shiat right there.

An impressive little video.

Link (new window)


/not a rickroll
//sad when you have to say that

GaryPDX:Sounds like the airbus...

That explains it all right there. They're lucky the lightening didn't knock the rudder off too.

What's a satelitte? A petite satellite?

Melgania:FTFA: "...and not all lightning is associated with storms."

A guy I worked with a couple of years ago had his car roof blasted by a bolt from the blue.

He was driving down a quiet country road, not a cloud in the sky, perfect, sunny spring day, when all of a sudden, *BLAM*, like his car just exploded - so he quickly stops and gets out. He couldn't see anything until he got out, but then he realised that there was a residual thunder noise dissipating in the sky, and then he noticed a dinner-plate-size patch of smouldering burned paint on the roof.

/Freaky shiat
//But it happens

Sounds like your buddy aggravated somebody.

jjpat:Furssed Poast???

Is this YOU??? (new window)

Pope Schizoid XIV:An impressive little video.

Link (new window)

Wow, if you look at this cap from the video, it looks like the lightning current passed through the plan, and spat out the back end.

Sorry, folks. That worked fine in preview. Let's try it this way.



Preview works. Now I'll just press this button . . .

Never mind. Fark doesn't like that site, I guess . . .

IronTom:Pope Schizoid XIV:An impressive little video.

Link (new window)

Wow, if you look at this cap from the video, it looks like the lightning current passed through the plan, and spat out the back end.

Tough to say, but airplanes (as a conductor in the presence of a very strong electric field) can actually initiate lightning in a bidirectional manner. There are a few vids of such events occurring, IIRC.

Not sure about the 'bolt from the blue' business. Much of the time, those are reports of lightning that occur away from a nearby storm, and are oftentimes just positive strike flashes (not particularly rare by any means). We've never actually measured electric fields strong enough to caused dielectric breakdown even within thunderstorms (which is the order of 3000 kV/m for dry air, or >600 kV/m for cloud-laden air, while max observed electric field intensity has been near 300-400 kV/m), so I can't imagine what would cause such an intense electric field required to initiate a lightning strike in a cloud-less sky. Cosmic rays may initiate lightning as a result of something called a relativistic runaway electron avalanche, but even that requires a very strong ambient electric field (many orders of magnitude larger than the fair-weather electric field).

WxGuy1:Cosmic rays may initiate lightning as a result of something called a relativistic runaway electron avalanche, but even that requires a very strong ambient electric field (many orders of magnitude larger than the fair-weather electric field).

Okay, now you're shiatting me.

Chariset:What's a satelitte? A petite satellite?

It's made with foamed milk.

No, that would be a satelatte. Okay, I give up.

DonPeyote:This is why i wear a St. Christopher when i fly.

\jesus is my co-pilot

I actually have a St. Christopher medallion in my wallet that I got from my grandpa. He wore it during WWII and came home, alive, after being blown up.

/ It's more of a good luck charm
// St. Chris does not want to smell my farts

WxGuy1:3000 kV/m for dry air, or >600 kV/m for cloud-laden air,

this seems like a major untapped source of energy.

FTFA: Pilots usually try to fly around thunderstorms - mainly to avoid more damaging problems from hail or turbulence - but this is not always possible, and not all lightning is associated with storms.

What? Why the fark not????!!!!!

Fomby_Belcher:FTFA: Pilots usually try to fly around thunderstorms - mainly to avoid more damaging problems from hail or turbulence - but this is not always possible, and not all lightning is associated with storms.

What? Why the fark not????!!!!!

Thunderstorms can form along cold fronts hundreds of miles long, or otherwise in lines or clusters stretching over a huge distance. Flying around these is sometimes not feasible because of the huge distances involved.

If you fly between Asia and Australia during the monsoon season, you get to experience a lot of thunderstorm dodging over Indonesia. But those are individual clusters and cells of clouds, so they're the easily-avoided type.

/Meteorology nerd

By the way, does anybody on board know how to fly a plane?

I just got missed by a speeding truck by a couple of miles.

/so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Poppa Boner:jjpat:boobies You think you're so farking clever don't you?

Nope, quite the opposite.

boobies