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"Meat Plow" wrote
On Wed, 27 May 2009 14:10:55 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
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"Adrian Tuddenham" wrote
Arfa Daily wrote:
"Adrian Tuddenham" wrote
Eeyore wrote:

I`ve been following the chat on Pprune, but it would appear that the
server is now overloaded. It seems like it flew into bad weather,
there
was some kind of elecrical problem reported shortly before all contact
was lost.

How do you make a Faraday cage out of GRP? without making it as heavy
as
the
metal you are replacing.


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According to my paper , no Faraday cages these days. Apparently "static
wicks", wires buried on the edges of wings and tail is supposed to do
the
job that an overall shell of aluminium used to do.

It`s some kind of light wire mesh laminated into the CF. General chat on
the PP forum would suggest that composite based airframes seem to
attract lightning more than aluminium clad ones do.

Ron(UK)

Suely its not whether they attract, that is how lightning conductors work.
But how easiily the current passes around the frame and out the other side,
with as little ohmic heating on the way, to continue its cloud to cloud
path.


I`m just repeating what professional pilots have to say on the matter.

Ron