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English: 3-view drawing of a Lockheed P-38F Lightning twin-engined US WWII fighter. Date: 7 January 2012: Source: ... Lockheed P-38 Lightning; Usage on th.wikipedia.org
A 3-view line drawing of a P-38G A 3-view line drawing of a P-38L. XP-38: United States Army Air Force designation for one prototype Lockheed Model 22 first flown in 1939 [145] YP-38: Redesigned preproduction batch with armament, 13 built [145] P-38: First production variant with 0.5 in guns and a 37 mm cannon, 30 built [145] [146]
The slight branching redness traveling up this person's leg was created by current from a nearby lightning strike. A Lichtenberg figure (German: Lichtenberg-Figur ), or Lichtenberg dust figure , is a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials .
The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft ... small numbers were also allocated to the front-line fighter ... BAC Lightning F Mk.6 3-view drawings.
Speculations of Jean-Antoine Nollet had led to the issue of the electrical nature of lightning being posed as a prize question at Bordeaux in 1749. In 1750, it was the subject of public discussion in France with a dissertation of Denis Barberet receiving a prize in Bordeaux. Barberet proposed a cause in line with the triboelectric effect.
Material properties (size, color, texture) of fulgurites vary widely, depending on the size of the lightning bolt and the composition and moisture content of the surface struck by lightning. Most natural fulgurites fall on a spectrum from white to black. Iron is a common impurity that can result in a deep brownish-green coloration.
Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [ 10 ] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [ clarification needed ] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground.