Yes. Static charges are surface based. The wick provides an exit point for the charge.


On Nov 4, 2004, at 9:07 PM, terrence o'neill wrote:

On fibreglas  airframes?
Terrence
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Subject: [LML] Re: Static wicks


On Nov 4, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Jim Cameron wrote:

That said, I was just at an air expo where I saw a couple of planes with static wicks made of just a piece of multistrand wire, maybe 12 ga, with the aft 3/8" stripped.  Would they work?


Yes, they will work........ quite well, as a matter of fact.

Walter