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Help and Support Forums => Aces High Bug Reports => Topic started by: Soda on November 22, 2004, 12:01:19 PM
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Lost my vertical stabs, aircraft handled like they were gone, but when I looked back the left hand side one was still drawn as attached. I have a screenshot if you really want it.
-Soda
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You mean horizontal stabs?
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Same with spitfire, loosing vertical stab or horizontal stabs doesnt show when i look back at my plane, it still looks as if it is ok.
Loosing elevator only shows though.
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Originally posted by Kweassa
You mean horizontal stabs?
Yes, sorry, horizontal...
-Soda
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Soda was that last night with my jug? (Was a lucky black out shot by the way).
On other occasions I've noticed one horizontal stab fly off of my target and a moment later the second stab flies off. Why is that? Does losing one H-stab create a huge force on the other side allowing it to snap off? I've seen pictures of aircraft landed with half or more of one H-stab shot off.
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I've always wondered about this Oct.
I've asked the question on the boards, and apparently some people did testify that they in fact experienced the state of getting only one h-stab ripped off.
But curiously, I've never seen it happen to me. It's always two stabs at once. Same on both the receiving and inflicting end - I see some pings on the h-stab, and its either both instantly falls off, or one falls off and then the other.
I've experimented with the offline drones that knocking down only one of the h-stabs is possible... but I've yet to see it in the game.
Quite strange I must say..
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Originally posted by Kweassa
I've experimented with the offline drones that knocking down only one of the h-stabs is possible... but I've yet to see it in the game.
Offline drones don't react to missing parts, so they don't undergo the aerodynamic stresses of a sudden pitchup or whatever. I don't think I've ever seen just one pop off in the game either, and I suspect that's why.
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I'm not an expert on internal aircraft structure, but like Oct says I've too seen many pics of battle damage and many of them with planes with only one h-stab left.
Quite curious, as it really seems none of the other parts look like they are receiving such "secondary impact" from aerodynamic stresses alone.
I find it hard to believe that the sudden increase in aerodynamic pressures would be so tense as to rip the opposite h-stab off. By that logic, wouldn't a plane also automatically lose its opposite wing when it loses one wing, in much simular manner where a control surface suddenly disappears and the burden of force increases two fold on the remaining surface?
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A wing would be a different animal than a flight control surface as it is bolted/reinforced as opposed to being a hinged panel like most flight controls and flaps, if that makes any sense.
~Wes