Aerospace Lab is an electronic journal dedicated to scientific progress in aeronautics and space research. Its featured technical fields therefore include aerodynamics, propulsion, materials, structures, physics, sensors, information processing, and system engineering.
Issue 5 , Decembre 2012
Lightning Hazards to Aircraft and Launchers
courtesy of K.Michimoto and Z.Kawazaki
The fifth issue of Aerospace Lab Journal is devoted to the interaction of aircraft, helicopters and launchers with lightning. A lightning strike to an airliner is a rather frequent and unavoidable threat. Several papers present the physical properties of lightning and storms. Experimental and theoretical studies of the direct effects of lightning on aircraft are described. Indirect electromagnetic effects are also depicted. The papers strive to enlighten how fundamental knowledge of the physics of lightning can be applied to assess the reality of lightning threats and to improve the effectiveness of aircraft certification against lightning.
CONTENTS
Pierre Laroche
S. Soula (Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse/CNRS)
A. Delannoy † (Onera), P. Gondot (Airbus)
Z. Kawasaki (E-JUST and Osaka University)
E. Williams (MIT), S. Heckman (Earth Networks)
X. Qie, R. Jiang (LAGEO), P. Laroche (Onera)
P. Laroche, P. Blanchet, A. Delannoy †, F. Issac (Onera)
P. Lalande (Onera), V. Mazur (National Severe Storms Laboratory)
P. Lalande, A. Delannoy † (Onera)
L. Chemartin, P. Lalande, B. Peyrou, A. Chazottes, P.Q. Elias (Onera),
C. Delalondre (EDF), B.G. Cheron (Cnrs), F. Lago (DGA)
J.-P. Parmantier, F. Issac, V. Gobin (Onera)
D. Morgan, C. J. Hardwick, S. J. Haigh and A. J. Meakins (Cobham)
F. Issac, E. Bachelier, D. Prost (Onera), V. Enjalbert (DGA), L. Mohedano (APAVE)
