The U.S. Marines claim that their ability to turn amphibious ships into aircraft carriers is a major advantage on the battlefield. Amphibious ships, though not full-fledged aircraft carriers, can ...

Flying through storms is fraught enough without a lightning strike to worry about I recently joined a tour of Sicily’s Mount Etna that was supposed to include a hike on the Italian volcano’s upper ...

On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to clear before landing in Philadelphia. At 8:42 p.m., lightning struck the Boeing 707’s left wing, igniting fuel ...

We have published several articles explaining that close encounters between jets and lightning occur every now and then around the globe, usually causing little to no damage at all to the planes.

Studies show that about 90 percent of the lightning strikes to aircraft are thought to be initiated by the presence of the aircraft itself. [Credit: iStock ] Most aircraft lightning strikes ...

The moment a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt struck an aircraft at low altitude. Notice that the lightning bolt entered the aircraft near the forward part of the fuselage and exited near the tail.

While Nimitz– and Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest warships ever built, a Lightning Carrier can be comprised of a Wasp-class LHD assault ship, transporting twenty-six F-35Bs. This number ...