V-Flyer

Don't look if this scares you, it's pretty dramatic, but has no effect whatsoever!

See here!

Ah yes, takes me back to learning about Faraday cages at school... didn't Top Gear do something similar by putting a car under an industrial generator, and simulating a lighning strike on it?

ratechaser wrote:Ah yes, takes me back to learning about Faraday cages at school... didn't Top Gear do something similar by putting a car under an industrial generator, and simulating a lighning strike on it?

Yep! They did. See here:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/car-lightning

That's amazing!

I do wonder what the effect is for those onboard (and if anyone notices!).

Assume it's fairly noisy!

Thanks for posting Slinky.

Luke

This happened to us many years ago on the approach to MCO. We were in the front row of P/E which at the time was downstairs in the nose, and it sounded like someone hitting the nose of the plane with a VERY big hammer

The Captain came on, explained what had happened and we landed as normal - only downside was, we had to sit on the plane for about 20 mins till the ramp people were allowed to come out to "plug us in"

David