Aircraft Lightning Strike Indirect Effects Evaluation by Low Level Swept CW Testing

One of the tasks to show compliance with the relevant requirements for protection against the effects of lightning on an aircraft is to derive the so-called internal environment. Of the methods available to determine the transfer functions from the specified external lightning environment to the aircraft specific internal environment, low level swept CW testing offers benefits over the high level or low level pulse injection methods. The paper looks at the way an actual test was conducted on the EADS Airbus Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD) testbed aircraft, a VFW614 model. This aircraft has been heavily modified to fly with an Electronic Flight Control System EFCS. The test is performed to determine the Transient Control Levels (TCL) and establish the Equipment Transient Design Levels (ETDL) for the new equipment.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2929
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/01487191
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
• Authors:
  • Spiller, Olaf
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity
  • Location: Toulouse , France
  • Date: 1999-6-22 to 1999-6-24
• Publication Date: 1999-6-22

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Lightning; Materials and structures protection
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01798970
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: SAE International
• Report/Paper Numbers: 2001-01-2929
• Files: TRIS, SAE
• Created Date: Dec 9 2021 10:19AM