Polish MiG-29 atacked!!!

By Ball Lightning!

''Tak wyglada miejsce w ktуrym piorun opuścił samolot, z relacji pilota wynika, że była to kula wielkości piłki do "ręki", przelatująca przez kabinę, o niespotykanie białej barwie. Ominęła go dosłownie o kilka centymetrуw, słyszalny był huk, po czym przestała działać elektronika''

What does the text below the image say?

My polish isn't that good ;)

Let's wait on GGTharos ;)

Is the top of the tail is made of wood???

Composites, you've never seen such materilas in raw state before?

''Tak wyglada miejsce w ktуrym piorun opu?ci? samolot, z relacji pilota wynika, ?e by?a to kula wielko?ci pi?ki do "r?ki", przelatuj?ca przez kabin?, o niespotykanie bia?ej barwie. Omin??a go dos?ownie o kilka centymetrуw, s?yszalny by? huk, po czym przesta?a dzia?a? elektronika''

That looks a place where thunder-ball left the aircraft. Pilot said the sphere was size of handball, it flew throught the cockpit and it was unusual white colour. Ball missed the pilot just about couple centimeters, he heard a big bang and then whole electronic stopped working.

EDIT: Damn Groove! You where faster mate! :lol:! :harhar:

Thanks :)

I wonder how would modern fly by wire systems take this kind of “ball” lightning?

> then the electronics stopped working

did he depend on steam gauges to get home?

Composites, you've never seen such materilas in raw state before?

Of course I saw raw states of some composites like glass wool or kevlar.

But in the photo, it seems like wooden and frankly, I tought such parts of the aircraft are made of aluminum, titanium or whatever-ium...:)

The fins(especially the radiotransparent parts) are carbon-fiber composites, the same material is used for the nose radar radome.

> then the electronics stopped working

did he depend on steam gauges to get home?

works with Russian Stuff, Western planes would fall out of the sky, like a dead bird :megalol:

Of course I saw raw states of some composites like glass wool or kevlar.

 

But in the photo, it seems like wooden and frankly, I tought such parts of the aircraft are made of aluminum, titanium or whatever-ium...:)

Na, mach 2 non stealth aircraft are all mostly made of composites except structs and certain items like horizontal tail plane axis where there will be more stresses, and areas most exposed to heat as well.

If you look closer on that picture it wont look like wood at all but small fibers wich make up every staked layers in that board of laminate composite. If you break a composite it will look threaded like that.

Any plausible theories on ball lightning out there yet? I have my own: transdimensional shifts of electric current that pass through from another dimension for some reason, held together by a strong EM field (photon torpedo with plasma to put it simply). :P I have great ideas while baked :P

really fascinating those ball lightnings, it almost seems like they are intelligent, maybe the 'hand of God' (aka alien lifeforms), or some complex phenomena beyond our current understanding of physics.

Please son't turn this into a 'F-15 rulez, my country is teh best' kind of thread, this is really, really interesting.

There was an explanation of ball lightning recently. I don't have time to look up the article right now though.

He is damned lucky to be alive.. Amazing how little structural damage was done to the plane- even if the avionics are now crispy chicken mcnuggets..

Na, mach 2 non stealth aircraft are all mostly made of composites except structs and certain items like horizontal tail plane axis where there will be more stresses, and areas most exposed to heat as well.

 

If you look closer on that picture it wont look like wood at all but small fibers wich make up every staked layers in that board of laminate composite. If you break a composite it will look threaded like that.

Thanks for the reply and time...

But in the photo, it seems like wooden and frankly, I tought such parts of the aircraft are made of aluminum, titanium or whatever-ium...:)

Probably woodium. Very cheap material...

Any plausible theories on ball lightning out there yet?

Tesla was attracting the energy of the lightnings through tall tower in Colorado Springs lab and was using that energy to produce ball lightnings.

That was the lab where the light bulbs worked without wirings and Tesla was producing hundreds of thousands of volts with Tesla’s transformer.

Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljane, village some 10 miles far from the village where my late mom was born. As a kid, my parents took me to a Tesla’s born house in Smiljane.

I visited Tesla’s Museums in Belgrade and Zagreb and have seen Tesla’s transformer in action. My kids held fluorescent bulbs that where energized (turned on) in their hands without wires (courtesy of Tesla’s museum in Belgrade, Serbia).

Serbian (later Serbian-American) scientist, Nikola Tesla was messing with ball lightnings and was able to reproduce them from what I know.

No, he was not able to create ball lightnings and never intended to do so. He was researching new ways for wireless transmission of electrical energy.

Tesla was attracting the energy of the lightnings through tall tower in Colorado Springs lab and was using that energy to produce ball lightnings.

No, the Wardencliff Tower was part of a transmission system, which he wanted to introduce to the world. Unfortunatelly, before the system was fully tested and workable, he ran out of money. The tower structure later was demolished.

See http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=894&roc=2000&cis=1

for a picture of the tower and other Tesla stuff.

That was the lab where the light bulbs worked without wirings and Tesla was producing hundreds of thousands of volts with Tesla’s transformer.

In fact, Tesla had more than one lab. He had many of them in recent years, in different locations of the Eastern USA.

Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljane, village some 10 miles far from the village where my late mom was born. As a kid, my parents took me to a Tesla’s born house in Smiljane.

 

I visited Tesla’s Museums in Belgrade and Zagreb and have seen Tesla’s transformer in action. My kids held fluorescent bulbs that where energized (turned on) in their hands without wires (courtesy of Tesla’s museum in Belgrade, Serbia).

You can have the same if you put a neon lamp close to a radar antenna, the electrical field will make it lit.

For further reading on Tesla and his great inventions, I recommend the biograpy by Margaret Cheney and Robert Uth "Tesla - Master of Lightning", ISBN 1-58663-187-X

Am, he was CROATIAN-Serbian-American (if you want the american part).

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't he's father an orthodox priest?