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Offline Bubbajj

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Just curious about the FW A5
« on: December 06, 2006, 12:15:06 PM »
Hello all. Do the wings of the earliest Focke Wulf fall off in a dive? I did a vertical vulch the other day and scraped the ground on the pull out. Was handleing funny and looked out and both wing tips were gone. Was this caused by the dive or by hitting the ground? I managed to fly it home and land it which was an adventure in itself. Just wondering. By the way, you get a lot of perks for stomping a typhoon in an A5 :D
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Re: Just curious about the FW A5
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2006, 12:17:24 PM »
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Hello all. Do the wings of the earliest Focke Wulf fall off in a dive? I did a vertical vulch the other day and scraped the ground on the pull out. Was handleing funny and looked out and both wing tips were gone. Was this caused by the dive or by hitting the ground? I managed to fly it home and land it which was an adventure in itself. Just wondering.


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Seriously, you probably ripped them off on the pullout. The only thing I've ever damaged without dying when hitting the ground or a GV is the tailwheel.  I've done that about 5 times.
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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2006, 05:30:25 PM »
I don't think it's very realistic though. The 190 had a solid main wing spar, and another long partial wing spar. It was a VERY strong wing. I don't think it would have ripped off with any amount of Gs. The pilot would have blacked out before it would have happened.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2006, 05:42:01 PM »
i had them rip off before i pulled up. mad e a nice loud noise so i looked left and right and i had half the wings i started with, thats crazy. :rolleyes:
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Offline FrodeMk3

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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2006, 06:30:24 PM »
I ripped a pair off of an A-8 the other day. I had been in a powerdive, was starting to shudder from compression, chopped the throttle, pulled back hard on the stick, and bang.
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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2006, 01:20:38 AM »
Yup, that pretty much describes it every time. Hell you can do it with a power OFF dive from 10k to drop a bomb on a target, pull up at 3K and rip wings off. It's not realistic.
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2006, 01:48:22 AM »
It's your concentration camp prisoner labor force down at the Focke Wulf factory that's making sure those planes are shoddy.

Sabotage!
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2006, 05:11:27 AM »
"I don't think it's very realistic though. The 190 had a solid main wing spar, and another long partial wing spar. It was a VERY strong wing. I don't think it would have ripped off with any amount of Gs. The pilot would have blacked out before it would have happened."

Well, thats what I think too. It's a heavy plane with small wings and I always thought that the wing causes much of this weight because it was made very rigid. The rigidness is one of its assets when it comes to creating a phenomenal roll rate. If you look the rivet lines in the wing you realize how much metal there actually is.

Just another coffin nail.

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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2006, 06:57:45 AM »
check your g meter and see when they rip off....:D
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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2006, 10:24:35 AM »
So you can pull more instantaneous G in 190 than any other plane, e.g. F4U?

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