(SR-52) Lightning Protection of Aircraft

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An excerpt from Lightning Protection of Aircraft, NASA Lewis Research Center, Aerospace Safety Research & Data Institute, Scientific & Technical Information Office, NASA Reference Publication 1008, 1977 (550 pgs)

"                                   PREFACE
This book is an attempt to present under one cover the current state of
knowledge concerning the potential lightning effects on aircraft and the means
that are available to designers and operators to protect against these effects.
…
The persons who can best use information on aircraft protection from
lightning are the aircraft designers and operators, but generally they are not
among those who produced this information. Moreover, they are often unaware
of its existence, and they seldom have the background to distill from it the
important facts that can and should be applied to achieve safer designs. The
purpose of this book is to present the most important parts of this body of
knowledge in a manner most useful to the designer and the operator.
…
TABLE OF CONTENTS
…
Appendix 1 . SR-52 Calculations . Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Appendix 2 . SR-52 Calculations . Tube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
…
                APPENDIX 1
SR-52 CALCULATIONS - CONDUCTOR
TITLE Conductor Temperature Rise and Elongation
…
                APPENDIX 2
SR-52 CALCULATIONS - TUBE
TITLE Grounding Tube Temperature Rise and Elongation
… "

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[BruceH]

Thanks for that.

The graph in figure 3.1 (p.58) is one of those masterpieces of data presentation: highly unusual but instantly appreciable.