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Aircraft Lightning Zone
- Aerospace Standard
- ARP5414B
- Revised
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English
Scope
This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) defines lightning strike zones and provides guidelines for locating them on particular aircraft, together with examples. The zone definitions and location guidelines described herein are applicable to Parts 23, 25, 27, and 29 aircraft. The zone location guidelines and examples are representative of in-flight lightning exposures.
Rationale
This revision incorporates changes throughout that are consistent with in-service reports on aircraft lightning attachments that were collected to support a review of coherence between the zoning established process and the likely and unlikely zones of lightning attachment observed in service. The contents, including the figures of the ARP, were revised to be consistent with the in-service lightning attachment data. An appendix with the in-service data used in support of the changes was added to the document.
Due to the extensive re-work and re-organization of this revision, the standard “change bar” indications for the changes are not shown; therefore, an “R” has been placed before the document title.
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| Table A1 | Lightning attachment aft of wing-mounted turbojet engines on large transport airplanes | |
| Table A2 | Lightning strikes for large transport airplanes | |
| Table A3 | Lightning attachments for large transport airplanes | |
| Table A4 | Lightning strikes for swept wing business jets | |
| Table A5 | Lightning strikes for straight wing business jets | |
| Table A6 | Lightning attachments for swept wing business jets | |
| Table A7 | Lightning attachments for straight wing business jets | |
| Table A8 | Lightning attachment to wingtips | |
| Table A9 | Lightning strikes for rotorcraft |
Issuing Committee
SAE AE-2 LIGHTNING COMMITTEE It is the duty of the AE-2 committee to produce advisory materials for the aerospace community in the following areas:
The natural lightning environment and related environment standards Protection of aerospace vehicles from the effects of lightning and other atmospheric electrical environments. Means of verifying the adequacy of protection measures. Standardized and other atmospheric electrical environments for lightning simulation and test methods.Reference
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