Saturday, March 05, 2011

St. Elmo's Fire

Only a short clip of the awesome light show on our way around a few winter thunderstorms in Illinois. The video does not do it much justice. About 2 seconds into the video, you see a bright flash. That was not caused by lightning, but a burst of static electricity, called St. Elmo's fire. Most of the tiny flashes you can see are originating from the windshield wipers spreading across the windshield.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Stephan Wilkinson said...

I should hope it wasn't caused by "lightening." Wouldn't want to be dropping things off the aircraft to lighten it.

11:49 AM  
Blogger GC said...

I think this must be the ONLY cockpit video of St. Elmo's Fire anywhere. I've seen a lot of it, myself, but I've never had a vidcam with me. Good going! Now, to show this to my wife and kid.

11:46 PM  
Blogger Windsor said...

Cell phones are handy little things sometimes.

7:08 AM  
Anonymous Harrison said...

I like the video. Thanks for sharing.

12:26 PM  
Anonymous Jim Witt said...

Very interesting video. The st. elmo's fire is quite cool.

5:07 PM  

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