Re: Lightning DOES strike
"I have a German phrase book from the 1960s that has the useful phrase, under 'Travelling by Air', "Will you please open the window"."
I remember the helicopter from Malta to Gozo that did have opening windows for all passenger seats. There were two of them, Russian military ones that stayed there when the Soyuz de-unionised.
I mentioned this to a colleague when I returned to the UK and he said "That's so you can shoot out of them. But one good thing, you're not likely to be brought down by small calibre AA fire, the underpans on those things are indestructible."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
