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Originally Posted by ThomasMc
Harry, you "conveniently" neglected to quote the very next paragraph in that Wiki definition. Not that I'm surprised that you would do such a thing. Tsk tsk.
"If the cage is grounded, the excess charges will go to the ground instead of the outer face, so the inner face and the inner charge will cancel each other out and the rest of the cage would remain neutral."
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I didn't quote that because it's entirely irrelevent to the discussion at hand, which is what happens to aircraft when they are struck by lightning. An aircraft at 30,000ft is rather self evidently not grounded
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