A funny thing happened on my way...

[FiLtH]

 Keep film on. Canceling it after each flight 100 times is worth it when you have that 1 flight you wanna see again.

[mensa180]

Grizz I have also hit the ground in a 262 at very high speed and only lost an engine, as well as prop planes, it's pretty rare though.  Go offline for a bit and try, I think you'll get it.

[ozrocker]

I always love the "Chang" when I bounce off the top of gv in plane



                                                                                       <S> Oz

[shiv]

I used to have auto film turned on but 99% of the time there's nothing I want to save so it just becomes annoying.  Then I run into a rare instance like this and wish I did have it on.

Keep auto-film on. Something happens that you want to save hit Alt-R and save the film. Then hit Alt-R again.

That way everything is always at the end of each film. 

[Shuffler]

Last night I was playing on the Baltic map and decided to take a 262 out for a spin.    There had been a pretty good fight going between the Bish and the Nits in the NW corner of the map so I headed toward the Nit base.

I like to fly the 262 at around 10K to start so I'm between the high guys and the low guys and the bases in that corner of Baltic are around 4K so I was flying at 14K when I got to the Nit base.

So I'm cuising along near 500 mph at 14K looking around, dipping a wing to see what's below me when I spot a 110 just off the runway and almost directly below me.  I chop throttle and dive in.    I get close, fire a shot and try to pull out.  Uh Oh.    Quick to the trim tabs I trim elevator all the way up.  The nose starts to respond as I brace for the inevitable.  I hear a noise.    I'm climbing again!    I check the damage and my left engine is gone.    I must have whacked the ground with it!  I can't even blame it on a tree because I was headed to an open area.

I think the other engine was also damaged as I couldn't hold more than 325 mph in level flight after that and when I did land I couldn't shut it off.  At least I got it home.   

Man I wish I filmed my sorties.  I'd like to see that one close up.  

lol

[grizz441]

Grizz I have also hit the ground in a 262 at very high speed and only lost an engine, as well as prop planes, it's pretty rare though.  Go offline for a bit and try, I think you'll get it.

If more than one person can verify it I believe it.  I was assuming that baldeagl actually received damage elsewhere to the engine, not on the ground, and I did not mean to infer he made up the story, if it came off sounding that way.  That's pretty incredible though, I wish there was film. 

[RoGenT]

Good story and lucky on the recovery: Had that been me, I would have set a depth record for plowing a plane into the ground 


I have couple of similiar stories one with the 262 and the other in a 152:

262: I was up to about 30K trying to catch up with a huge buff mission. I was able to get one kill before I was going to run out of fuel. On the way down, I was compressing big time, had to cut engines, do the trim and lots of cursing (mixed with laughing) and finally was recover.

152: I was about 14K or so and harassing set of buffs. I forgot the 152 goes into a nasty spin at times like the Mossy. I was going vert and end up going into flat spin. I was using rudder, trim, anything I could think of. FInally I was able to get the nose sideways, kicked out my gears and able to get control of my plane at about...1K.

[whiteman]

have bounced a couple planes off the ground at high speeds and limped back home or was able to ditch. a couple i just would have rather blown up so i could just get the next sortie started.

[Delirium]

Damaged but working engine that wont shut off?

happens with the 38 some times too.

Shift 1 to select engine #1, shift 2 to select engine #2, control E to control all engines again. Shift E to restart and control both engines again.