p40e damage bug

[Krusty]

Chased some coward 100+ miles until he started circling one of his CVs... I dive on him, and I can't tell it if was some wierd overstress or dual flak bursts perfectly timed, but I lost both wingwips and ailerons in my P-40E

The same situation in any other plane is mostly stable but with worse stall and no roll....

Only in the P-40E I was squirreling all over the place. It rolled very hard to the left so much so that I had to have full rudder to barely keep myself even. This was also the case when the flaps were out (these also made it longitudinally unstable for some reason, they did NOT help the handling like they do in other planes).

I checked damage screen 20 times, and nothing else was damaged. I rolled film after I lost both wingtips so you get the entire package. Landing was terrible because even with engine RPM down and throttle back I had to floor right rudder to barely keep myself stable. In the end I came in almost on my side and ripped a gear off somewhere (I wasn't looking until I realized I wasn't taxiing like I should). That killed the engine. Then as I sat there I checked F3 to verify the flaps were not broken/jammed, so that did not explain the handling either.


Please look into this, it's definitely not right. Lose both wingtips should keep you relatively stable in your current flight path. That is not the case here.

Thanks

link: http://www.nakatomitower.com/fubarp40edamage.zip (1.6 MB zipped)

[kvuo75]

is that not just engine torque rolling it to the left?

[sunfan1121]

P40E has lots of torque to fight against.

[coola4me]

Did you notice that the star is still visible where the right wing should be? This maybe a case of crazy FE problems!

[Krusty]

It wasn't just the torque, I was full over on the rudder and barely able to hold her steady, even with reduced RPMs and reduced throttle.


Even on practically idle settings, just enough to stay in flight, I was rolling.

Felt more like one of the wings was still there screwing with the flight, than it did a torque issue.


Come to think of it, this happened to me in one of the spits, too, but I did not get that on film.