Big bang at work.
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craigrice In my previous life flying in South/Central America’s and Carribean you could watch the cloud to cloud lightening move across the sky, move along the towering cumulus as they build skyward as you pick a safe path while trying to keep your distance.
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Several years ago I was fishing from a boat with my family in open water on Merit reservoir in the Nebraska Sandhills. We could hear some thunder in the distance and were preparing to pull anchor and get off the water.
About that time I notice my daughters long black hair was sticking straight out in all directions from the static electrical charge that had accumulated in the air over the water. It was the strangest and scariest thing I had ever seen since I knew how much voltage it took to cause someone’s hair to stand up like that.
I fired up the engine and gunned it to the nearest shoreline we could reach and got everyone on shore till we felt safe.
I think back to how badly that could have ended. Lightning can do really odd and spectacular things.
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Watched a spectacular lightning show in West Texas last weekend while dove hunting. We watched it from our trucks, once it passed the birds started moving again.
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Several years ago I was fishing from a boat with my family in open water on Merit reservoir in the Nebraska Sandhills. We could hear some thunder in the distance and were preparing to pull anchor and get off the water.
About that time I notice my daughters long black hair was sticking straight out in all directions from the static electrical charge that had accumulated in the air over the water. It was the strangest and scariest thing I had ever seen since I knew how much voltage it took to cause someone’s hair to stand up like that.
I fired up the engine and gunned it to the nearest shoreline we could reach and got everyone on shore till we felt safe.
I think back to how badly that could have ended. Lightning can do really odd and spectacular things.
processhead that was an extremely close call you had. Thank goodness all ended well
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processhead that was an extremely close call you had. Thank goodness all ended well
I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
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I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
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I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
YooperDog said in Big bang at work.:
I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
Its seem bizarre that a plane can withstand a direct hit like that, until you consider there is no path to ground with a plane in the air.
Kind of like the birds sitting on a high voltage power line.
Paul
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YooperDog said in Big bang at work.:
I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
Its seem bizarre that a plane can withstand a direct hit like that, until you consider there is no path to ground with a plane in the air.
Kind of like the birds sitting on a high voltage power line.
processhead Usually you will find some arcing across the surface and a hole where it exists
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