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The aerodynamic shape of Green Lightning was special for its time, as it was one of the first solar cars with a 'monohull', or 'bullet', shape. Next to the original shape, Green Lightning had more innovations, like the four wheel steering system and the composite leaf springs.
The first scientific description of the crown flash phenomenon appears to be in the journal Monthly Weather Review in 1885, [4] according to the Guinness Book of Records. [5] Also mentioned in Nature in 1971 [ 6 ] and in a letter to Nature slightly earlier in the same year, [ 7 ] this phenomenon is regarded as uncommon and not well documented.
Brett Porter, [5] a wildlife ranger, reported taking a photo in Queensland, Australia in 1987. Bead lightning, also known by the terms pearl lightning, chain lightning, perlschnurblitz, éclair en chapelet and others, [6] is the decaying stage of a lightning channel in which the luminosity of the channel breaks up into segments. [7]
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire [1]) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.
Cannon drew particular inspiration from Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 1:16: "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance was as it were a wheel within the middle of the wheel." [5] For Cannon, the pertinent text continued with Ezekiel 1:19: "And when the living ...
The company built a custom 35-foot trailer (5 feet longer than the biggest Airstream available at the time) that lacked wheels so it could be transported on a flatbed truck or a cargo airplane.
The British Westland Whirlwind (four 20 mm cannon) and the American Lockheed P-38 Lightning (one 20 mm cannon and four .50 cal), both twin-engined fighters, carried the entirety of their gun armament in the nose, a configuration which concentrated the firepower at a broader range of distances, and did not require left–right harmonisation. [4]
A subsequent study from Stanford University in 1996 linked a TGF to an individual lightning strike occurring within a few milliseconds of the TGF. BATSE detected only a small number of TGF events in nine years (76), due to it having been constructed to study gamma ray bursts from outer space, which last much longer.