In fact, 1963 was the last year a strike caused an airliner to ... putting some metal back into the fuselage for lightning protection. “Smaller aircraft and the military have been using ...

If you're a nervous flyer who's worried about lightning hitting your airplane, there's a major unexpected reason why you have ...

The lightning strike didn’t leave the plane ... nothing serious should happen because of the careful lightning protection engineered into the aircraft and its sensitive components.

The F-35B Lightning II is the Marine Corps variant of the Joint Strike Fighter and features ... from longer runways on major bases. F-35B aircraft have been delivered to the U.S. Marines and ...

THE 169-year-old Serkam Pantai mosque in Melaka, which was struck by lightning recently, shows that no building, new or old, is safe from this destructive natural phenomenon. The minaret of the ...

The F-35C Lightning II is the U.S. Navy’s first low-observable carrier-based aviation platform. The F-35 is being purchased to replace the F/A-18C/D Hornet as the carrier strike group’s ...

Trees struck by lightning may not need to be removed, as the damage varies depending on the intensity of the strike ... be advisable to install lightning protection in a tree in certain situations ...