Airliner Hit By Lightning
 

Ever fly in the rain?

http://bm6aak.myweb.hinet.net/file/456.gif

holy shit ! :helpme

Thanks, I will never fly again now.

THERES....SOMETHING ON THE WING.....SOME...THING....ON THE...WING

Yeah that would scare the crap out of you :bowdown and kiss your ass goodbye

I was tempted to say this back in April when I took a vacation, but I didn't feel like going jail.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

ahh, thats some crazy shit. makes me not want to fly.

I think it's called F I R E !!!! :helpme

Quick, someone show me how to resize that to a button-sized image. That would kick ASS as my sig!

hardcore :helpme

Now that's a good idea :drinkup

Brutal shit

yes, and I thought of it first! I feel so proud of myself. :)

That is a wild view. :thumbsup It's not grounded though, and made for energy to fly around the outside...so it works out. But it's still scary having that many volts shoot through like that...haha.

Holy Moly !!!!!!!!! :eek7

I predict 1 hour before it is being used as a sig.. :1orglaugh :Buck:

so people inside the plane aren't affected at all?

looks damn nasty

Dammit, someone teach me how to resize the fucker! I want it!! :warning

Not besides the pile of crap they are all sitting on now :1orglaugh

I was chatting with KC on ICQ when his plane was hit with lightning. He was fine:-)

First you say it; then you do it. :1orglaugh

Planes get hit lightning fairly often, its usually not dangerous. And before a plane can be type certified by the FAA, it has to be demonstrated that it can take a lightning strike and not suffer significant structural damage.

Finally figured out what it was that shatner saw....

http://www.godsartgallery.com/juicyterror.jpg

So how do I resize the original...*blink*
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There's somethingo n the wing....there's...JUICY...ON THE WING!

I used flash to just grab the important part of the original gif and exported it as a gif.

I don't have any idea about the capabilities of Flash. I haven't gone that far yet. :(

Mind if I snag your copy? I want it in my sig, and I said it first. :1orglaugh

ouch that can't be a good thing... :(

fake

One hour...you underestimate me! :1orglaugh

Go for it.

Whoohoo!! Thank you! :)

It does catch your eye pretty good. makes a nice sig.

stunning !!

That's what I thought, too. Thanks for letting me use your gif. :)

No problem, glad to do it. thanks for coming up with the idea..might have to throw some text on it in a bit.

The last confirmed civilian plane crash that was directly attributed to lightning in the U.S. was in 1967, when lightning caused a catastrophic fuel tank explosion. Since then, much has been learned about how lightning can affect airplanes, and protection techniques have improved. Airplanes receive a rigorous set of lightning certification tests to verify the safety of their designs.

What happens when an aircraft is struck by lightning?

Although passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise, nothing serious should happen because of the careful lightning protection engineered into the aircraft and its sensitive components. Initially, the lightning will attach to an extremity, such as the nose or wing tip. The airplane then flies through the lightning flash, which reattaches itself to the fuselage at other locations while the airplane is in the electric "circuit" between the regions of opposite polarity. The current will travel through the conductive exterior skin and structures of the aircraft and exit off some other extremity, such as the tail. Pilots occasionally report temporary flickering of lights or short-lived interference with instruments. We have heard reports of the activation of cabin oxygen masks; no doubt frightening for the passengers.




:thumbsup

ok, lets get to the important things, will my drink spill?

that must be insane if your sitting on the inside

Exactly. Looks a lot worse than it is.