Landing w/o a wing

[Spazzter]

Originally posted by bobtom
Just a little while ago I was flying in a 190 and got half my wing shot off the guy who shot me must have took me for dead b/c he broke off. I flew home and tried to land but on my first time around my gear broke off which complicated things. But the second time around i landed safely

One time at Band Camp.........

Wait that is a different story.  In regards to landing with half a wing it is very possible.  The spit is probably the most stable aircraft missing half a wing.

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Spazz

[llama]

Corsair missing half a wing is not tough to fly with rudders and a little aileron trimming. With one notch of flaps down, it is downright easy, and you can go one notch of flaps and full throttle as long as the fuel holds out.

Best half-wing landing story:

The LA7 I'm capping with is missing half a wing. The field is then taken, and the only friendly landing zone within range is the CV - about 5 minutes away. No one has set its course, so it is circling. Great.

Though it was a terrible, ugly landing that resulted in pretty much every part of my plane getting ripped off, I managed to land it and came to a rest upside down, "landing" 4 kills.

So anyway, it is totally possible.

-Llama

[Brooke]

I wondered if it was unrealistic for planes in AH to be able to stay in the air with only half a wing -- until I saw this (from TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War 2, by Barrett Tillman).



This TBM made it back and then successfully ditched.

[Saxman]

Shoot, I've seen pics of aircraft with their entire vertical stab blown off and still flying. Yet in AH losing your stab = dead.

Oh, and why does losing ONE horizontal stab automatically blow them BOTH off?

[Krusty]

Because they are modeled as 1 piece. The AH damage model is somewhat simplistic (no offense HTC) in regards to "hit zones" -- both stabs are one zone/piece/area.