Land a plane with no elevators but intact stabs.

[save]

landing with 2 Halfwings is my fav.
Succeded on 1 out of 4 so far.

also shooting down 2 lancs with one half wing should be on the list

[icepac]

Saw a claim jumper land a b29 with only a functional rudder last year.

[Mitchell]

Finally got the achievement! Got elevators shot off in a yak while fighting over a friendly field. Seemed pretty easy to land in that bird. 

[tuton25]

I flew a P-38 a sector and a half with no vertical stabs.  Crashed on the runway and slid into the grass, but It's a landing in my book.

I did this in a mossie and actually landed. The torque of those Co-Rotating props really helps to control your slew (and 14,000 ft)....

[Wizz]

There should be a separate achievement for landing a B29 with no elevators or ailerons. Just using throttle and rudder has to be one of the hardest things to do in AH.

When I did it I had 1 flap which I could only deploy right at the point of landing to get it slow enough as to not explode when I hit the runway. Wings came off but I landed that beast and posted a score.

This was after surviving 2 262's and a 152 at 20k.

[Gman]

When I first started flying the Ki43 a couple months ago, I was ripping off the elevators and ailerons in dives due to not being used to just how fast the pop off after the first creaking warnings.  You get a lot more time in 109s and other planes.

Luckily it's pretty easy to get it home without elevators, and really not hard at all with missing ailerons.

Two examples, one close to home and one not.  I'm used to the Ki43 now, as soon as I hear the first creak, which I try to avoid now in the first place, it's throttle back and nose up.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ru4idw4kdib8u6d/novator1.ahf

http://www.mediafire.com/download/xh6wa657z706wab/novator2.ahf

[pops04]

I have landed a few Pony's with half a wing missing not really too hard just real slow on the approach, and prior to line up roll to the side of the aircraft with missing part of wing apply opposite rudder to slow aircraft to landing speed line up and crab the aircraft like hell. Try to stay aligned with runway. As flying drops off stop cock engine roll and max brakes. Then have crew chief clean out your seat.  Landing without elevators done once but I guess that it didn't apply to the achievement.

Pops04    

[save]

pops, try it with 2 half wings
Landing get's much faster

[lyric1]

Take a single Boston to say 10K dive full throttle till elevators break off. Slow down using throttle as you do the nose will drop power up the nose will pull up. If you want to wash off speed but keep it level because your little far out from the runway chop the speed & do constant barrel rolls. Then when your close enough just use the throttle as described above.

[ccvi]

REALLY?!?!?! Why the added requirement of intact stabs?

A thread running for 2+ years with the original question still unanswered?

It's simply a matter of the definition of "landing". In the sense of the achievement, landing is the point of time ending the flight (.ef), it does not make any requirements for how the plane got there.

On the actual landing (the act of getting the plane back to the ground) it is very easy to break the complete tail (stabs and control surfaces). On .ef such a landing would count if the part "intact stabs" would be missing, which would clearly be the cheap way to get the achievement.

[save]

I managed to get a ditch in a Ki43 with no horizontal, on a flat surfac - once in a 190a8 "landing" on a slope.

[Randy1]

I managed to get a ditch in a Ki43 with no horizontal, on a flat surfac - once in a 190a8 "landing" on a slope.

I landed a P-38 with no tail one time.  Well, maybe I should have said it landed itself by pure luck and I got a ditch.

[save]

Just got this achievement , no elevators, one horizontal, no rudder, on a CV, with an F6F.

[icepac]

I got mine in b29s after descending too quickly and shedding the tail feathers at 425 ias. In fact I lost the ailerons too and only had rudder and throttles to maneuver and land with. Wife wasn't impressed

I'm pretty sure I saw that landing.

[hotcoffe]

landing without elevators is not that diff. tho it takes alot of time... I usually just bail them when I am in a safe zone...
whats diff. is landing a fast plane with half wing...