Can one of you guys please explain the half-wing behavior modeling. We all know that some planes like the F4U, Niki, FW190, and I belive also Typhoon and F6F can go on flying reasonably well after they recieve the half-wing damage. While planes like the Spit, Me109, and yak etc.. cannnot even maintain level flight. Some have said this is just a random representaition of general wing damage, but I think this is false as the planes behave exactly the same every time they loose a wing half. Others have said that planes with high roll rates are able to overcome the loss of lift due to their aileron power, however I belive this is false too as the F6F and especially Typhoon have rather low roll rates. Plus somebody posted a WW2 picture of a TBM Avenger flying with half a wing as we see in AH- certainly this plane doesnt have a high roll rate- and even in the picture the opposite aileron was minimally deflected. So its not roll rate or aileron force. IT obviously has nothing to do with wing loading as the highly loaded FW190 can fly with the half wing damage while the much more lightly loaded Spit cannot. So whats the deal deal here guys, can you please take a few minutes to explain this and support this behavior.
My fear is that its completly arbitrary in how it works. Perhaps its no different than the earlier completely arbirtary oil-cooler leak run times, that have since been corrected. Perhaps its time to correct this one as well. But first It would be great of you guys at HTC to give us some info on why the planes fly as they do on half a wing.
Please respond to this Hitech or Pyro.
