05/09/2019
How do plane's withstand Lightning??
The fuselage/body of an Aircraft acts as a Faraday cage (blocks electromagnetic fields). Hence, the energy and electric charge from the lightning bolt run around the outer surface of the plane's frame, protecting the interior from any voltage. This electricity then jumps back into the air by a little antenna-like devices called static wicks. Static discharge wicks, installed on the trailing edges of aircraft, including ailerons, elevators, rudder, wing, horizontal and vertical stabilizer tips, are fitted on almost all civilian aircraft today. When the aircraft charge is great enough, it discharges into the surrounding air. Static dischargers contain sharper points than any other part of the aircraft, cause the charge to discharge through them instead, and do so gradually.