Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!tjc From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Lost Apollo 12? Keywords: What happens when you fly into thunderheads? Message-ID: <6331@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 13 Sep 90 14:42:55 GMT References: <36975@ut-emx> Distribution: sci.space.shuttle Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software Lines: 12 I'm curious to know why an aircraft can take a lightning strike with no damage due to the Faraday Cage effect and Apollo 12 nearly had to be aborted. Is this where the trail of ionised gas is significant? Tony p.s. Sorry if this is obvious but anything dealing directly with electrons is beyond me. Microcode is my limit :-) -- Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk If a man among you has no sin upon his hand Let him throw a stone at me for playing in the band.