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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 5:57 pm
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Originally Posted by trek87
Grounding is not required for the aircraft to be an effective Faraday cage.
Alas windows smaller than about 15cm or so are required for this.

Still I would assume that the skin does significantly degrade the signal and is the cause of the problem.
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