This handbook edition is an update of the DOT/FAA/CT-89/22 Aircraft Lightning Protection Handbook to include major advances and updates of standards and other criteria used for protection design and verification testing of airframes and systems. The handbook will assist aircraft design, manufacturing, and certification organizations in understanding the effects of lightning strikes on aircraft, and in protecting aircraft against the physical and induced effects that lightning may cause on aircraft structures and systems.
Supersonic aircraft will have environmental impacts distinct from those of subsonic aviation, and are once again being developed and bought. Assessmen...
As aircraft industry moves from traditional metal construction to advanced composite materials, there is a concern that current techniques used to det...
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