A lightning swept stroke modelA valuable tool to investigate the lightning strike to aircraft.pdf

Aerospace Science and Technology 10 (2006) 700–708 /locate/aescte A lightning swept stroke model: A valuable tool to investigate the lightning strike to aircraft Alain Broc a, Philippe Lalande a,?, Emmanuel Montreuil a, Jean-Patrick Moreau b, Alain Delannoy a, Anders Larsson c, Pierre Laroche a a ONERA, 29, av. de la division Leclerc, 92332 Chatillon, France b Dassault Aviation, 78 quai Marcel Dassault, 92552 Saint Cloud, France c FOI – Swedish Defense Research Agency, Grindsj?n Research Centre, 14725 Tumba, Sweden Received 16 November 2004; received in revised form 8 September 2005; accepted 24 October 2005 Available online 25 September 2006 Abstract In the context of lightning strike on the Dassault Falcon family of aircraft, the standard zoning of Falcon 50, 900 and 2000, inferred from FAA and EUROCAE WG31 documents [US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Advisory Circular AC 20-53A, 1985; US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Advisory Circular AC 20-53B, Draft, 1991; EUROCAE WG 31, Aircraft Lightning Zoning Standard, ED-91, 1998], has been presented. Zoning proves to be quite similar between the three types of aircraft. Thanks to the feed-back on lightning strikes to Falcon, lightning traces have been observed on the fuselage for different flight conditions and aircraft. Observations are compared with the zoning performed by Dassault. A physical model, developed by ONERA, was used to simulate the sweeping of lightning on the fuselage of a Falcon 900. The results are in good agreement with the lightning traces observed on the fuselages. ? 2006 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Résumé Dans le cadre du foudroiement des avions, un zonage typique des Falcon 50, 900 et 2000 est présenté. Il s’appuie sur les documents régle- mentaires provenant de la FAA et du groupe 31 de l’EUROCAE [US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Advisory Circular AC 20-53A, 1985 ; US Department of Transp