This browser does not support the Video element. UNITED KINGDOM - One of the world’s largest aircraft, the Airbus Beluga XL5, was hit by lightning while taking off from Hawarden Airport in Flintshire, ...

Airbus has affirmed that it made modifications to its flagship aircraft, A350 wide-body aircraft, at a time when it was caught in a fierce legal tussle with Qatar Airways. The change is based on the ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won’t feel a thing, thanks to lightning protection measures that are embedded ...

The aircraft offers exceptional high-speed capabilities.

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...