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Aerospace Engineering Issue III Mechanical Engineering Volume XXIV

Shocking! – How Airplanes Defend Against Lightning

Keywords  Airplane, Lightning Protection, Faraday Cage, Materials Engineering, Conduction, Weather    Abstract  When aircraft manufacturers began to transition from using metals to using composite  materials, a new and significant flaw emerged in their designs – a deadly weakness to lightning.  A series of passenger plane crashes resulted in the engineering […]

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