Getting back to the original thread quickly!!!!. This report was covered in “Flight International” about a month ago, so it’s hardly new. I think it was covered in the Times last week on what is known as a slow news week!
Incidently the same issue of “Flight” had an artical about a report by the same “Watchdog” that criticised another british carrier for incorrect loading their aircraft. That didn’t make the papers, slow news day or not!

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A different angle from the car park, fantastic!!

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So they have had second thoughts about the silver fuselage then?

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I’m with you Whiskey Bravo, I’ve never heard of a lightning deflector either. There again I’m not an “Aviation Expert”!
(X= un known quantity, spert= A drip under pressure)

BTW the meatal strips bolted to the surface of radomes use a priciple known as “Faradays cage”.

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Don’t most modern aircraft have some sort of deflection device??????

Aircraft don’t have deflection devices as such. They use thier radar to detect areas of thunder and then they try to fly around them. This is also because of the turbulance found around the thunder “cells”.
During takeoff and landing of course they are a bit limited on the amount of avoiding action they can take!. This is when the majority of lightning strikes take place. To protect the aircraft and it’s systems all of it’s parts are electrically bonded together so that any abnormal electrical loads can disperse through out the airframe without “flashing over” causing sparks.
This large electrical charge has got to go some where. Small charges will be disersed from the normal staic discharge wicks fitted to the trailing edges of the tail and wings. Big ones, as you can see from the video discharge straight through the airframe to earth!.
The aircraft will be dammaged by the strike. This will be a small areas of burnt metal looking like spotwelds. There will also be damage at the exit point. These areas have to be inspected and repaired.
Whilst you can’t say that it happens all the time, lightning strikes are a reasonably common occurance and often the crew does not notice the small ones. The damage is often only noticed during maintenance.

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I was told that it broke it’s back in Canada. Did a heavy landing and broike it’s back in the “usual” 767-300 place, fwd of the wings. Boeing have repaired a few over the years, so I think the have got it right by now!.There were pictures of it on the web somewere. It was over there flying for Skyservice on Caribbean charters.
Unless they broke TWO over the summer!?

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Fantastic!!. Ain’t she beutiful. Thanks

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NC900, could I be VERY cheeky and put in a request?. In your vast collection of French gems, have you any pictures of the Breguet 765 Sahara?. It has been my favorite Frence aircraft since I saw one at R.A.F. Odiham in the early seventies. Eaven then at the tender age of six it impressed me!.

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