Re:St Elmos Fire

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: Daniel R DeFoe (defoes@juno.com)
Date: Sat Sep 25 1999 - 06:20:31 PDT 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 06:20:31 -0700
Subject: Re:St Elmos Fire
Message-ID: <19990925.062706.9934.0.defoes@juno.com>
From: Daniel R DeFoe <defoes@juno.com>

With the recent and spactacular lightning shows that we have been getting
I have been discussing" St Elmos Fire" with my classes. My son (pilot)
has witnessed this at approx 600 mph in a 747 cockpit. He tells me the
energy from the electrical storm gathers at the nose of the aircraft with
quite a display of small lightning bolts flickering across the
windscreen. If the electric charge grows more intense ,a ball of light
will sometimes enter the aircraft and pass through, exiting at the tail.
Evidently this is quite a "scary" site to passengers? So the questions:
Who is St Elmo? How did this phenom get the name? Anyone know? Dan

___________________________________________________________________
Get the Internet just the way you want it.
Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Oct 19 2000 - 11:09:34 PDT