Question about the damage model

[oboe]

We know that wings can now 'break off' due to excessive aerodynamic stress; we know the wings also can receive fatal damage from cannon/machine/flak hits.

So my question is does one affect the other?  That is, if a wing has taken partial damage due to fire, is it more likely to fail during high-G manuevers?

Likewise, if a plane is currently undergoing heavy stress (high G turn) and receives machine gun fire, will fewer hits be required to cause the wing to fail?

I absolutely sawed off the wing of a Spit the other day with a high deflection shot of .50 cal, and wonder if the fact that he was turning hard made any difference.

[Midnight]

This is one I would love to know for certain too.

It sometimes *seems* that way, but other times not.

I lean towards the later, because I've had my P-51 wings full of holes many times and have never lost a wing at high speed or sharp turns (lost due to the higher drag at high speed, or induced G in a turn)

[oboe]

punt.  Inquiring minds and all that rot.

[Murdr]

I doubt anyone but HTC staff can positively answer this.  As a bbs lurker though, my readings have given me the impression that the damage value to break a wing, and the G stress value to fail a wing are 2 seperate perameters that dont affect each other.

[straffo]

Dunno if it's modelled but last night I had fire in the left fuel tank of my Typhoon ...
I pulled hard to line with the runway and my wing broke ...
 5 kills lost to my stupidty

[TexMurphy]

On my Yak Ive only, as far as I know, broken wings when they have been damaged. Never from just pure G pulling stress.

The way to test this would be to take a plane with very good high G durability and stress it out. See how much stress you can put it through before anything breaks.

Then get someone to ping your wings and do the same thing.

Tex

[hitech]

They do not effect eachother