Ground to Cloud Lightning Flash Currents and Electric Fields: Interaction with Aircraft and Production of Ionosphere Sprites

Figure 1

(a) Video frame of a lightning strike to an aircraft on takeoff from the Komatsu Air Force Base on the coast of the Sea of Japan during winter [1]. (b) Lightning flash incident, Heathrow Airport, May 2011 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386086/Jet-struck-lightning-lands-Heathrow.html#ixzz1dGEEkLOL).

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