B-25 missing wing lift bug(?)

[Krusty]

Several times now I've lost just the outer portion of a wing, about halfway from the engine to the wingtip is where the break is.

Even when light, with no bombs, less than 25% gas, and a decent forward speed, it is 100% impossible to keep from rolling into the missing wingtip.

It acts as if the ENTIRE wing is gone, from the fuselage outward, when in fact only the wingtip is gone.

This has happened to both wings I'm certain, but specifically I remember several times it's happened to the starboard wingtip.

EDIT: I notice it most in B-25Hs because they go into ground attack more. I don't know if it happens much in B-25Cs.

[Krusty]

This happened again last night.

B-25H, about 25% fuel, no bombs, most 75mm gone, I lose my right wingtip. Nothing else. I cannot roll over to compensate, at all. Not full rudder, rudder+aileron, rudder+aileron+trim. I shut down my right engine to see if that would help, realized it was the wrong engine, so started it up and shut down the left engine, NOTHING would work. I was doing about 200mph, too, so I had decent speed for lift.

It was a rare lucky moment, I was able to nose up, get gear and flaps out and somehow touch down in the trees on my wheels.


I then spent 10 minutes taxiing to the nearby v-field to land safely.


Is this a bug?!?!?! Or is this just basically the B-25H pilots get screwed if they lose a wingtip?