[TowerTalk] more - Precip static

[rudder1@ibm.net (Malcolm Clark)]

K4SB wrote:

[snip]

> And to refer to "static wick" as "sharp and
> pointed" would merely indicate you've never seen one. 

Actually I've seen lot's of them.  The individual fibers really are
individual sharp points when compared to the airframe.  The idea is to
provide these points so that the static charge can bleed of rather than
accumulate on the aircraft's surface-where it could build to an
undesireably high potential.

73
Malcolm KR4HP

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