Your best landings with parts missing?

[Smkn]

Most of these pictures look like bad landings that RESULTED in missing parts. (You don't fly missing 1/2 your fuselage)
THIS B-17 however, flew back to base and landed missing BOTH wings and all control surfaces but Rudder and Left Elevator. Happened a year ago or so. It was a brutal, BRUTAL flight back. Lost the left wing to gunfire, lost the other wing to a 190 ram. Was trying to keep her level with most of my tail shot off, when one of the planes I had previously killed (out of 4 that run) re-upped. Horrible shot, he flew in too fast for the wounded, diving buff. Missed most of the shots but plowed right into the right wing. Which, wonderfully, made the plane easy(er) to fly. With altitude running out, I landed this battered beast at the hot front-line base. Took a few pics, and landed her!

I strongly do NOT recommend ever trying this again..... hurts your rudder wrist.

[MarineUS]

^ hahaha that's a good one 

[Flifast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BGV0KfTmA

[DERK13]

ill post a film, this is sick i was in a corsair and i got a mossi and then went for this m3 somehow during the explosion of the m3 i got a pw and engine oil then engine quit. Lucky enough i was on a down hill slope towards the base, during the blackouts i would let gear down and finally almost there in a blackout i hit the ground, cart wheeled the plane landed backwards going down the hill. Hit f3 mode and looked back, TREES!! I break a horizonal stab. And both of half the wings. Im steering with the rudder backwards and shooting the guns to make me go faster down the hill. I get 1 final blackout and i wake up on the runway lol. 2 victories definetly saved the film. Ill edit and post it

[M0nkey_Man]

P-38 with no ailerons (had to use engines to turn  )

[greens]

My best landing was about a year ago, I was winging w a squaddy both of us in 262's, we fly 1 sector to a furball by a nme base, there was about 3 rook cvs right by the Abase n 2 went down quick also my squaddy, i managed to get 3 kills n had a oil hit n a fuel leak, tried to run but there was about 15 nme w more alt than me and i had to land on our cv, while turning to the cv to land a nme comes screaming in guns ablazing and he augers n i get a PW and a stablizer missin, was going too fast to land on cv safely and i hit the cv at a freak angle n i end up missin a wing then i end up in the water thinking i died, but no YOU DIED text on screen so i ended sortie quickly and i got the safe landing n no death or ditch LOL  
wish i had a film of it but i dont  

[Condor]

I've flown long distances landed a P-51 several times with half of one wing missing.  what worked for me was keeping the speed as high as possible until approach and keeping it rolled slightly to the side with the entire wing.  The moment you roll much to the side with the missing wing it's back to the tower.  I've also landed one once with no elevators (and also crashed several times with no elevators). I found flying with no elevators is much harder than with half a wing missing.

[Krusty]

Condor, if you roll out a notch of flaps, then another, until you have full flaps out, it significantly increases lif and decreases the wing dip. US planes are the easiest to land without a wingtip.

Now, a Ki84, or a Fw190... THOSE are harder! The flaps don't come out until you're almost stalled. Takes a bit of finessing, controlled stalling at nose high angles, etc.

[Plazus]

Best landing I have made thus far:







Landing on top of a bomber does in fact register as a successful landing by the way. It's a shame there was no fire in this incident.

[Krusty]

Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.


There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.

[RichardDarkwood]

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.

Spit V with 1/2 a right wing

[A8TOOL]

Impossible landing: Best there ever was in a bomber. Lots of excitement and suspense..will he or won't he make it?

 http://download395.mediafire.com/1k1jsc89j22g/yzjvkw155mf/impossible+landing.ahf


 

[LLogann]

You forgot to mention your flaps, which seem just fine...... 

Most of these pictures look like bad landings that RESULTED in missing parts. (You don't fly missing 1/2 your fuselage)
THIS B-17 however, flew back to base and landed missing BOTH wings and all control surfaces but Rudder and Left Elevator. Happened a year ago or so. It was a brutal, BRUTAL flight back. Lost the left wing to gunfire, lost the other wing to a 190 ram. Was trying to keep her level with most of my tail shot off, when one of the planes I had previously killed (out of 4 that run) re-upped. Horrible shot, he flew in too fast for the wounded, diving buff. Missed most of the shots but plowed right into the right wing. Which, wonderfully, made the plane easy(er) to fly. With altitude running out, I landed this battered beast at the hot front-line base. Took a few pics, and landed her!

I strongly do NOT recommend ever trying this again..... hurts your rudder wrist.

[LLogann]

Last thing in the world I want to do is agree with Krusty........ But this well respected enemy is 100% correct. 

Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.


There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.

[MarineUS]

Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.


There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.

Not all, just some. Mine was all combat related.