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

UDRI's researchers can perform a wide variety of bird strike and foreign object damage (FOD) impact tests on aircraft structures or aircraft engine components. Projectiles as small as grains of sand ...

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 ...

"I saw lightning strike and somebody just fell down," the caller reported to authorities Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Trees struck by lightning may not need to be removed, as the damage varies depending on the intensity of the strike. It's crucial to address immediate hazards like broken branches, but wait a few ...

Jason Hamilton sent in these photos of damage caused to a home by a lightning strike. A Texaco gas station canopy was destroyed at Highway 61 and Hay Renfroe Drive in Paulding County. David ...