Jun. 19—A lightning fire that started Thursday in Mat-Su was among dozens of new wildland blazes sparked around Alaska by thunderstorms, wind and high temperatures. The Mat-Su fire was located near ...

Lightning can strike twice. In the case of aircraft, it can strike multiple times. On planes built from highly conductive aluminum, even the worst-case 200,000-ampere jolt can be quickly conducted ...

As the use of carbon fibre composites increases in aircraft manufacturing, so does the need for EMI shielding and lightning strike protection [1-4]. Lightning strike protection usually takes the form ...

Reference [1] describes a process for the design of lightning protection that transforms the transient experienced by the components during the lightning test transient into the reference transients ...