“These are called static wicks and help the energy of the lightning leave the aircraft safely,” Qantas explained in a recent blog post. “An aircraft flying through a cloud can actually ...

Thankfully, the aviation industry had figured out a solution long ago: the static discharge wick. They're small, but they do a lot of work. Static electricity buildup flowing through an aircraft ...

For something so important, it's a deceptively low-profile piece of equipment: a handful of small metal rods on the wings known as static wicks. If a plane were flying through the sky on a ...

Investigators state that the Mango 737 was following the Comair jet along ... the horizontal stabiliser to be damaged along with a static wick on the elevator. Investigators have attributed ...

The Mango 737-800, bound for Cape Town ... that the left aft tip of the horizontal stabiliser as well as a static wick on the left elevator were bent. Investigators have yet to reach final ...

Occasionally, a static wick will be the victim of lightning exiting the airplane. I have been in airplanes that have sustained lightning strikes several times with very little damage. A ...