Author Topic: horizontal stab damage (Read 624 times)

Kweassa · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:41:35 AM »

This has been discussed before, though no official answer came out.

I've asked people around the boards about this very isse:

Why, do the planes in AH, always, lose both Hstabs, and never just one?

Upto this day, I've never, ever, had just one Hstab destroyed in the MA.

I've seen this happen, in offlline, while target practicing against the drones. A P-51D was flying around with only one Hstab intact.

But, when online, ever since I started AH with AH1 v1.05. I've never ever damaged or been damaged only one Hstab.

Weird, eh?

TrueKill · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:57:37 AM »

i have when i was in a 110 had to go land cuz it was kinda hard to fly.

Eagler · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2005, 07:58:50 AM »

yes it depends on the plane, but most planes would lose rudder if the entire horiz stab was shot away

I do not know what plane Bodhi was in but I do know he restores warbirds for a living

my money is on Bodhi - sry TK

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2005, 08:01:44 AM »

Good luck finding a picture of a real plane that has landed with both vertical stabs completely missing.

Cobra412 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 16, 2005, 03:36:30 AM »

I've got a video that shows how to assemble the P-47 in the field. The rudder assembly slides over the horizontal stab assembly and the are bolted together with what looks like 8 bolts (4 to the front and 4 to the rear). The whole assembly is then bolted to the tail section using a total of 14 bolts. 10 bolts toward the front portion of the assembly going through the horizontal stab structure into 2 seperate mounting brackets (5 bolts per side)and four to the rear of the assembly going through the rudder structure into the main fuselage itself.

How they are secured makes it highly possible for one section of the horizontal stab to be blown to pieces and still have the other section secured to the airframe.

Edit: With this configuration it is also highly possible that the rudder surface itself would stay intact also even if one side of the horizontal stab is shot off.

Eagler even though it's stupid to debate whether or not you can loose both horizontal stabs and not loose your rudder it really depends on how the surfaces are mounted to the main fuselage. In the case of the P-47 if you did lose both horizontal stabs the rudder would stay intact due to how it's mounted.