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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2012, 06:44:39 PM »
From the picture I saw, I'd guess about 4-5'.

From other articles I found nothing departed the aircraft, bracket failed and wingtip was loose/moved a bit but stayed with the plane.
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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2012, 06:46:17 PM »
From the looks of the pic I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the Wishlist post for bombers enabled on CVs.  :t
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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2012, 09:11:55 PM »
From other articles I found nothing departed the aircraft, bracket failed and wingtip was loose/moved a bit but stayed with the plane.

Yeah, I saw the same.

From the looks of the pic I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the Wishlist post for bombers enabled on CVs.  :t

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edit: doh! someone posted a pic of it in this thread.
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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2012, 10:09:51 PM »
Someone pushed the wrong button.   :confused:

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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2012, 10:14:39 PM »
From other articles I found nothing departed the aircraft, bracket failed and wingtip was loose/moved a bit but stayed with the plane.


  This is what I read also,I've seen this bird many times as I live about an  hour from where it's kept.

  Would be a real shame to loose her,I wonder what will happen with the up comming airshow season?



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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2012, 11:22:10 PM »

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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2012, 03:21:55 PM »
From the looks of the pic I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the Wishlist post for bombers enabled on CVs.  :t

Must of been a bigger carrier than what we have in-game to only nip off that little bit/   :aok
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Re: Lancaster wingtip detaches in flight
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2012, 03:27:25 PM »
Yipe... closer to 3-4' imho, but worse still seems the handling must of been wild since it didn't fully detach...  where's the wishlist forum!

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i was gonna say isnt that the carrier version