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From: Moe Trin on 9 Oct 2009 23:03 On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article <87fx9s1bjy.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote: >spike1 weites: >> Planes get struck all the time, the bolts usually do no damage >> because it just travels around the skin. >Bit more of a problem, though, now that they are making them out >of plastic (not that the problem is not being addressed). Results 1 - 10 of about 3,050,000 for Beechcraft Starship. (0.24 seconds) They only built a handful (53?) in the late 1980s, but these all composite (glass and carbon composite) birds have been struck by lightning with no ill effects. Many home-built aircraft today are also built of fiberglass - and there were also commercially produced types. Boeing isn't THAT st00pid. You must also recall that before the "all metal" aircraft, places were built of wood, and covered in doped fabric - neither of which is very conductive. Sure most didn't go poking their noses into nasty weather that often, but lightning strikes are not that uncommon. Old guy
From: Darren Salt on 10 Oct 2009 08:08 I demand that spike1(a)freenet.co.uk may or may not have written... [snip; w_tom] > There was a time when any mention of surge protectors would summon him like > a bad smell, s/bad/burnt/ :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Unix hacks go to /usr/local/pub/red-lion for a pint.
From: TJ on 10 Oct 2009 08:32 Moe Trin wrote: > NASA 816 was a F-106B delta wing interceptor trainer from the late > 1950s. Langley Aeronautical Research Center flew this one into > thunderstorms as part of the NASA Storm Hazards Program from 1978 to > 1986. The aircraft was struck with considerable regularity. The > program came from a National Transportation Safety Board study > related to several hull losses - examples being a Pan American 707 > struck over Elkton Maryland in 1963, and an Iranian Air Force 747 > struck near Madrid in 1976. You're right about strikes NORMALLY > being an exciting non-factor. NASA published a number of photos > of 816, one of them from the back seat with the streamers all over > the plane. Quite impressive. > I expect the same sort of thing happens to the military and NOAA Hurricane Hunters all the time. They've used several different aircraft over the years. TJ -- All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. J.R.R.Tolkien
From: Sidney Lambe on 10 Oct 2009 16:16 On comp.os.linux.misc, Darren Salt <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote: > I demand that spike1(a)freenet.co.uk may or may not have > written... > > [snip; w_tom] > >> There was a time when any mention of surge protectors would >> summon him like a bad smell, > > s/bad/burnt/ :-) > > [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking > | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux > | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | > <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG > keys) > > Unix hacks go to /usr/local/pub/red-lion for a pint. (Which means that _you_ don't go there, obviously. One thing I've learned on the Usenet is that anyone who calls themself a hacker isn't.) The GDE crowd, pathetic invaders from the Windows world, are always trying to convince people that they are real Linux runners with their elaborate sigs and endless postings on Linux forums. You take their technical advice at your own peril: If someone isn't running Linux from the command line in a basic GUI without a GDE, then they aren't an expert. They aren't even close. I honestly can't tell whether these folks are just being typical GDE users and displaying their trademark short attention spans, or whether they are deliberately changing the subject because they are desperate to suppress any discussion of the GDEs. (They don't want the newbies to know that they are strictly optional, that Linux's native and only true interface, the shell, exists.) Either way, they are a perfect example of the riff-raff these bloated, Windows-clone interfaces have allowed to enter the the Linux world. Sid
From: Darren Salt on 10 Oct 2009 18:24
I demand that Sidney Lambe may or may not have written... > On comp.os.linux.misc, Darren Salt > <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote: [snip; .sig] >> Unix hacks go to /usr/local/pub/red-lion for a pint. > (Which means that _you_ don't go there, obviously. Well, yes. The nearest Red Lion isn't within convenient walking distance. ;-) > One thing I've learned on the Usenet is that anyone who calls themself a > hacker isn't.) You've learned something. Well done; I didn't think that you had it in you. > The GDE crowd, pathetic invaders from the Windows world, All one of them? You *know* that they're all one person. > are always trying to convince people that they are real Linux runners with > their elaborate sigs and endless postings on Linux forums. What's up, Unstable? Short of targets, are we? [snip] > (They don't want the newbies to know that they are strictly optional, that > Linux's native and only true interface, the shell, exists.) Hah. The newbies tend to do a good job of that themselves, bunch of invaders from the Windows world that they are... :-] Unstable, just admit it. You're a secret KDE user. [snip] -- | Yet another sock puppet | d @ youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Anti-Sid GDE/Linux | s ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Look! Shiny icons! Things to click on! FUN! To be wise, the only thing you need to know is when to say "I don't know." |