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Options for Aircraft Function Preservation in the Presence of Lightning
Technical Paper
1999-01-2403
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The advent of electronic digital technology has enabled unprecedented evolution of automation and expansion of aircraft functionality; however, this capability does not come free. Lightning is an intense form of the same type of electrical energy used by electrical/electronic equipment to process and transfer information. And systems incorporating such equipment are used more and more to implement aircraft functions, including Level A systems that affect safe flight and landing of aircraft. Because lightning is a common threat to Level A electrical/electronic (“fault-tolerant” or not) systems, lightning can translate into a threat to the aircraft itself. A strategy to achieve an acceptable margin of electrical/electronic system immunity to the indirect effects of lightning could include both traditional protection measures and system architecture measures.
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Hess, R., "Options for Aircraft Function Preservation in the Presence of Lightning," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-2403, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-2403.Also In
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- Hess, R.F. Knoller, H. Larsen, W.E. Masson G. M. Yount, L. J. Sharing the Protection of Aircraft Electronic Systems Against the Effects of High-Level Electromagnetic Environments between Traditional Protection and System Architecture 8th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference San Jose, CA October 17-20 1988
- Hess, R.F. Computing Platform Architectures for Robust Operation in the Presence of Lightning and other Electromagnetic Threats 16th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference Irvine, CA October 26-30 1997