Your best landings with parts missing?

[Muzzy]

Landing Gear optional. What's the best landing you've pulled off? (Not ditch)

Mine were: B26 with both elevators gone, and 190Dora missing part of a wing.

[STEELE]

110 with 1/2 wing gone

[branch37]

In a FSO frame a long time ago my squad had B-25s and i got in late so i was a gunner for a squaddie.  He lost both elevators and an aileron.  I was in the nose on approach and we missed hitting a bridge at the end of the runway by about 5 feet. 

[Dichotomy]

Same here FSO several years back and it was getting to dusk in that one.  A guy got my radiator and my oil about 2 sectors away from base.  Flew back using the map and altimeter as I could barely see.  Nursed my plane till I could see the buildings and my engine quit.  Somehow I managed to glide it over a hangar and land literally 95% blind. 

[JOACH1M]

I'll post a film, LANC no elevators 1 rudder, 3 engines, 1aileron, 1landing gear. LMAO I was skidding on my wing for 800 ft towered the field and made it! my other great was I stalled my il2 landing broke 1 wing and the other was a half of a wing did a barrel roll and rolled into the base safely

[oakranger]

262 with left engine and half wing out. 

[mechanic]

spitfire mkV with no elevators flown a sector constantly rolling to stay level then landed gear down onto a CV

[Scca]

F4U CV landing with both outer halves of the wings missing.  It was more of a crash landing, but it was "successful"...

[Wiley]

I landed, but didn't quite survive.  Still, it's the only landing I can recall that actually had me sweating as I made it.

First FSO I ever flew in, about 8 months ago or so.  I got pilot wounded 2 sectors out from base, we were in a fighting retreat on our way out.  I wound up missing an aileron, a flap, and a couple other bits and pieces.  Plus I was oiled.  As I got closer to home, the pilot wound started knocking me out more and more often.  Just before touchdown, I blacked out, heard my wheels touch, bounced, heard myself land again, then I heard the wheels break and I started to skid.  The blackout went away as I was skidding down the middle of the runway, losing parts as I went.  I wound up stopped in the middle of the runway, laughing like a hyena because the only thing left of the plane was the front half of the fuselage, upside down.  I leaned back still laughing and just appreciated the moment for a couple seconds.

As I was reaching forward to type .ef, the screen went red and I died before I could type it.

A few bad words were said.

Wiley.

[Stratocaster]

A couple weeks ago flying about 5k over my own base in my 109 I had my vert stab taken out... I spun all the way to the ground, but in the last couple of seconds as I able to level out just enough not to explode on impact, and ended up getting a successful landing on one of the hanger pads!

[mechanic]

A few bad words were said.

 

[Reaper90]

LOL my "best" would definitely be a week or so ago, bringing home a Tempest to a base right on the edge of a massive Knit/Rook furball that had been raging for several hours. Base was "on the edge" mind you, but far enough away that it should have been safe... or so I thought 

I think I had 5 or 6 kills, less than 20 rounds of cannon left, vapors in the fuel tank, and thoughts of hitting the rearm pad. There were at lease a dozen other friendlies lifting off or coming back at the same time, and all of a sudden I hear "REAPER, check the 190!!" "CHECK SIX! CHECK SIX!!!" "Watch it on the field!"

At this point I'm flaps full out, gear down, probably doing less than 100mph and about 10 feet off the runway about to make a squeeky perfect landing, when I hear the calls and look back to see some sack gobbler in a suicide 190D streaking in, 400 off my six and closing fast for a "straight down the runway" suicide vulch! Tracers are flying by me, then parts are falling off..... uh oh. 


Somehow, I didn't eat the big one. He got my tail, right wing, and engine. I was slow enough that what was left of my Tempest crashed to the runway and started rolling, removing the other wing and prop, leaving nothing but the nose and cockpit of the plane, me alive, upside down, hollerin' and cussin' up a storm.

And yet I "landed successfully!"

[xNOVAx]

Probably a 262 landing with one engine and both wingtips gone.. Lots of rudder work! 

[Soulyss]

A few bad words were said.

Wiley.

 

Last week a few of us decided to do a fighter sweep in P-39's, here was the final result.   

[bangsbox]

262 with half a wing missing no landing gear and 1 engine. it felt better than my woman to click end sortie.