Every time a commercial plane takes to the air, it enters a world pervaded by unseen forces, none more dramatic than lightning.

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 ] Question: A friend of mine was flying ...

We took a brief look at the process through a heavily redacted test report obtained by ... in environments without much anti-aircraft fire. The F-35 Lightning II is a multirole fighter, meaning ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a unique computational model to simulate how lightning can strike an aircraft. They said the insights they have gleaned from ...

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River ITF completed an initial flight test integrating the AGM-158C LRASM onto the F-35B Lightning II, following the first test on the F-35C in September 2024.

On June 6, 1944, the Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning made its first flight. Designed as a long-range fighter to improve on the ...

Observations from spacecraft, aircraft, balloons and ground-based ... thunderstorms remain poorly understood — as does the lightning that they produce. In particular, how lightning is initiated ...

The C variant is designed to be launched from aircraft carriers and costs about $117 million per unit. What makes the F-35 Lightning II special is that it brings next-level features like stealth ...