litz wrote:Setting aside the Strike vs Stroke argument (seriously, folks?) ...
Intense heat + concrete = bad bad news ... just ask anyone in Atlanta.
Lighting, to nobody's surprise, generates intense heat where it grounds out ... and when that surface is concrete, there's going to be damage. Not surprising at all when that contact point is on an airport runway, it's going to leave a mini crater behind.
litz wrote:Setting aside the Strike vs Stroke argument (seriously, folks?) ...
Intense heat + concrete = bad bad news ... just ask anyone in Atlanta.
Lighting, to nobody's surprise, generates intense heat where it grounds out ... and when that surface is concrete, there's going to be damage. Not surprising at all when that contact point is on an airport runway, it's going to leave a mini crater behind.
720B wrote:A lightning stroke on Bogota's airport yesterday damaging runway 13L (it created a hole on the asphalt) and landing lights. See link below (spanish only but has photos and a video). Numerous flights were diverted and / or delayed.
The runway has since reopened
http://www.eltiempo.com/bogota/cerrada- ... rado-79964
(scroll down on the link to see all photos)
I wonder how that could be prevented (I know of course of lightning rods, but don't know what is exactly needed to avoid lightning on an airport runway, or whether a lightning rod itswlf would be a hazard if too close to a runway). Luckily there was no airplane on the runway at that moment
litz wrote:Setting aside the Strike vs Stroke argument (seriously, folks?) ...
Intense heat + concrete = bad bad news ... just ask anyone in Atlanta.
Lighting, to nobody's surprise, generates intense heat where it grounds out ... and when that surface is concrete, there's going to be damage. Not surprising at all when that contact point is on an airport runway, it's going to leave a mini crater behind.