In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The team is now working on how this flying lightning rod ...
About 1.4 billion lightning strikes occur around the world each year — if we could harness them, it would meet roughly 1.5 percent of current global energy consumption. But that’s one of the goals of ...
A letter by Steve Jensen (AW&ST June 25, p. 7) raises an interesting issue. All commercial passenger aircraft since at least the early Douglas models have, among other things, been very effective ...