Patent ID: 8383994

Claim:
A transparency for an aircraft, comprising: a plurality of preconditioned glass and/or plastic sheets joined together to provide a transparency having a property selected from the group of a chemical property, a physical property, an electrical property and combinations thereof, wherein the plurality of glass and/or plastic sheets are laminated together and first outer surface of the laminated sheets is first major surface of the transparency, and opposite second outer surface of the transparency is an opposite second major surface of the laminated sheets; an outboard moisture seal over peripheral edge of the transparency to prevent moisture from entering between the glass and/or plastic sheets of the transparency; a sensor for measuring the amount of moisture between the first and the second major surfaces of the transparency to monitor performance of the outboard moisture seal, wherein the sensor for measuring moisture comprises one elongated moisture sensor having a first end and an opposite second end, and one part of an electrical connector external of the transparency and electrically connected to the sensor, to provide external access to the signal generated by the sensor indicating the amount of moisture absorbed by the moisture sensor.