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Anyone else see this? I saw it from Pioneer Ave in Puyallup. Plane looked like it was over Commencement Bay/Tacoma. I saw the lightning strike and there was a bright green spot right in the middle of it that glowed for a second afterwards....I thought it was some sort of natural thing; guess I was wrong.

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Dang....must of happened shortly after I'd seen the KC-135 flying south just west of Des Moines marina. Would have been something to actually see.......

Aircraft get hit by lighting all of the time no big deal. We do a N.D.I of the strike area drill a .250" hole and fill it with a 1/4 AD rivet, I have seen holes as big as .500" we cut out the damage and put a repair doubler on the damaged area no big deal most aircraft fuselage is made out of 2024 T-3 and is about .036" thick very thin skin any Boeing 737 skin is .036" in the chem mil pockets and where the tair straps are at the skin on the aircraft would be no thicker than .072", a piece of the hair on your head would be about .002", so you can see that the skin of a aircraft is very thin. so aircraft skin at it thickest point is only about 36 time thicker then a piece of hair.
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I think I'm up to five lightning strikes in my flying history. Finding the entrance (attach) point is easy, but the current goes through the airplane and has to exit somewhere... sometimes in one or two places, sometimes distributed. The damage can be spread across a lot of the surface. So far I've not seen anything serious, but we spend a lot of design time on protecting the insides by keeping the currents at the surface.