How Can an Aircraft Get Struck by Lightning Without a Close Thunderstorm?
About 40 percent of all discharges involving airborne aircraft occur in areas where no thunderstorms have been reported.
About 40 percent of all discharges involving airborne aircraft occur in areas where no thunderstorms have been reported.
The massive cargo aircraft was designed in the 1960s specifically to handle oversized loads, like the body sections of the Saturn V rocket.