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![St Elmo's Fire" on the glass window of an airliner cockpit. Intermittent, frequent lightning-like bolts of static electricity that flow along the surface of the aircraft and windscreen, often caused by fine St Elmo's Fire" on the glass window of an airliner cockpit. Intermittent, frequent lightning-like bolts of static electricity that flow along the surface of the aircraft and windscreen, often caused by fine](https://i.redd.it/p6459t2552031.jpg)
St Elmo's Fire" on the glass window of an airliner cockpit. Intermittent, frequent lightning-like bolts of static electricity that flow along the surface of the aircraft and windscreen, often caused by fine
Live from the Flight Deck - Saint Elmo's fire during the climb out - Boeing 737-800. St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona
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