On Jun 10, 5:53*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
"Richard Dixon" wrote in message

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On Jun 10, 5:16 pm, Dawlish wrote:

Some may see a bang, or a flash, some don't; is the implication of
this.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...appens-when-li....

Oh for heavens' sake. Still going to lengths to argue the toss as ever
- even on the rare times I do look in and post in here.

It's a bolt of lightning, it's very bright, you're probably going to
see it, unless the window blinds are down.

Over and out,
Richard
===============

We get used to it Richard :-)
Nice to hear from you!

Will
--

No need to snipe and you can leave out the "we" Will, many on here
would not like to be included in that and you close your ears to any
criticism by the expedient of killfiling. *))

"jbm" wrote in message ...

(*) To elaborate, it was the surveying instrument I was using at the time
that received the full force of the strike, and ended up as a molten lump
on the ground. I was close enough to have my hands burnt, and be knocked
about 20 feet across the ground by the force of the explosion. To show I
wasn't stupid enough to be outside in a thunder storm, I had got an
excavator to park next to me with it's dipper arm almost 20 feet up in the
air above me (a Hymac all metal machine including the tracks, so it should
have been earthed). And still the damned lightning found its way around it
and get to me. It must have been my natural magnetism, someone said
afterwards.

jim, Northampton



You were lucky the excavator didn't finish up as a molten lump, with you
underneath it. Still, something that relatively few have experienced, and
survived. I trust you had a speedy recovery with no long term effects.

Roger

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Just peering out of my window from up in the gods at the approaching
storm and just saw an inbound BA plane to Heathrow get hit by
lightning - that would have been an experience for those on board !

I was returning to Heathrow late one night through a cloudburst. About one
minute from landing there was a loudish thump, one side of all the cabin
lights went out, and a bright blue-green ball (best description I can put on
it) about 2 inches diameter shot down the middle of the aisle from fore to
aft. It sticks in my mind because, the aircraft having 'gone technical', we
were parked miles from the terminal and had a 50-yard dash through
torrential rain to the bus.

John

On Jun 11, 2:00*pm, "John Nice" johnDOTniceATbtinternetDOTcom wrote:
"Richard Dixon" wrote in message

...

Just peering out of my window from up in the gods at the approaching
storm and just saw an inbound BA plane to Heathrow get hit by
lightning - that would have been an experience for those on board !

I was returning to Heathrow late one night through a cloudburst. *About one
minute from landing there was a loudish thump, one side of all the cabin
lights went out, and a bright blue-green ball (best description I can put on
it) about 2 inches diameter shot down the middle of the aisle from fore to
aft. *It sticks in my mind because, the aircraft having 'gone technical', we
were parked miles from the terminal and had a 50-yard dash through
torrential rain to the bus.

No idea if that was above cloud lightning you being below cloud or in
it, but Colorado researchers discovered stuff like elves and sprites
come from ionised gasses amybe in the thermosphere.

It is made of the same material that flows through nerves apparantly.

The normal stuff is composed of electrons evolved from the heat lost
in instantly turning vast reservoirs of steam into ice.

John Nice wrote:


"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
...
Just peering out of my window from up in the gods at the approaching
storm and just saw an inbound BA plane to Heathrow get hit by
lightning - that would have been an experience for those on board !

I was returning to Heathrow late one night through a cloudburst. About one
minute from landing there was a loudish thump, one side of all the cabin
lights went out, and a bright blue-green ball (best description I can put on
it) about 2 inches diameter shot down the middle of the aisle from fore to
aft. It sticks in my mind because, the aircraft having 'gone technical', we
were parked miles from the terminal and had a 50-yard dash through torrential
rain to the bus.

John

About 20 years ago I was on a London-bound jet that was struck by lightning
about a minute after take-off from Aberdeen. There was a flash, a loud bang and
that was it. The flight crew didn't seem to be at all bothered and we continued
on to London uneventfully.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:18:58 -0700 (PDT), Dawlish
wrote:

Would they have even noticed it? Faraday cage effect and all that?

One or two might have reached for the 'coleslaw' bag?

R

On Jun 11, 3:37*pm, Robin Nicholson
,uk wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:18:58 -0700 (PDT), Dawlish
wrote:

Would they have even noticed it? Faraday cage effect and all that?

One or two might have reached for the 'coleslaw' bag?

R

*)) (yeuch!)

that sounds you like you dull boy

now run along and go annoy the yanks on the groups youve also trashed

oaf

On 10/06/2011 6:00 PM, Dawlish wrote:

??? You introduced the topic. I contributed. You get annoyed from
nowhere, when your view is not accepted outright;

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:39:20 +0100, jbm wrote:

As for me, well, I still haven't got any hairs on the back of my hands,
and I do tend to be a bit apprehensive being outside when there's
thunder around, but not the extent I bolt for cover at the first
opportunity.

I always bolt for cover from bolts. Curious coincidence that "cover"
almost always turns out to be a pub.


--
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man
To consider the Earth the only populated world in infinite space is as
absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one
grain will grow. - Metrodoros, 300BC