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Protected if lightning does hit the plane it will be conducted away from the sentencive instruments, and they have these static discharge wicks. if you look outside the plane, they have rods that stick off the wing and those are meant to help release static electricity thats built up when these planes fly into thunderstorms. they create their own static electric charge and attract thunder and lightning, so they try to do it that way. >> yeah, yeah. >> so its not typically going to bring a plane ...
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