presumably designed to maximize the chance of a clean lightning strike and direct it cleanly through the cage to the ground wire. Here's how the experiment worked: the NTT team waited for a ...

Every time a commercial plane takes to the air, it enters a world pervaded by unseen forces, none more dramatic than lightning.

With the drone deployed, NTT flipped a switch that delivered 2,000 volts flowing between the wire and the ground. Shortly after, a lightning strike was recorded near the drone. While NTT hopes ...

an electric current flowed through a wire connected to the drone, increasing the electric field around it and creating an electrical ground. This process attracted a lightning strike directly to ...