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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 7:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Wainwright
I can think of more frightening scenarios than that.
So can I - without even working at it. But this one is fairly cheap to enforce.

Originally Posted by Wainwright
With all the problems surrounding electronics on planes, I would like to think that many of the issues you have, have been discussed during aircraft design.
I would like to think so, too. But aircraft engineers of every stripe - airframe, powerplant, and avionics - have that old weight constraint line in their linear models. They do everything they know how to about imaginable scenarios (including lightning), but my guess would be that extraordinary amounts of RF noise directed at electronics are outside of their box - and weight limit. Cf. the architectural engineers who designed the Twin Towers.
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