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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Muzzy on January 19, 2011, 09:22:34 AM
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Landing Gear optional. What's the best landing you've pulled off? (Not ditch)
Mine were: B26 with both elevators gone, and 190Dora missing part of a wing.
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110 with 1/2 wing gone
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In a FSO frame a long time ago my squad had B-25s and i got in late so i was a gunner for a squaddie. He lost both elevators and an aileron. I was in the nose on approach and we missed hitting a bridge at the end of the runway by about 5 feet.
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Same here FSO several years back and it was getting to dusk in that one. A guy got my radiator and my oil about 2 sectors away from base. Flew back using the map and altimeter as I could barely see. Nursed my plane till I could see the buildings and my engine quit. Somehow I managed to glide it over a hangar and land literally 95% blind.
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I'll post a film, LANC no elevators 1 rudder, 3 engines, 1aileron, 1landing gear. LMAO I was skidding on my wing for 800 ft towered the field and made it! my other great was I stalled my il2 landing broke 1 wing and the other was a half of a wing did a barrel roll and rolled into the base safely
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262 with left engine and half wing out.
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spitfire mkV with no elevators flown a sector constantly rolling to stay level then landed gear down onto a CV
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F4U CV landing with both outer halves of the wings missing. It was more of a crash landing, but it was "successful"...
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I landed, but didn't quite survive. Still, it's the only landing I can recall that actually had me sweating as I made it.
First FSO I ever flew in, about 8 months ago or so. I got pilot wounded 2 sectors out from base, we were in a fighting retreat on our way out. I wound up missing an aileron, a flap, and a couple other bits and pieces. Plus I was oiled. As I got closer to home, the pilot wound started knocking me out more and more often. Just before touchdown, I blacked out, heard my wheels touch, bounced, heard myself land again, then I heard the wheels break and I started to skid. The blackout went away as I was skidding down the middle of the runway, losing parts as I went. I wound up stopped in the middle of the runway, laughing like a hyena because the only thing left of the plane was the front half of the fuselage, upside down. I leaned back still laughing and just appreciated the moment for a couple seconds.
As I was reaching forward to type .ef, the screen went red and I died before I could type it.
A few bad words were said.
Wiley.
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A couple weeks ago flying about 5k over my own base in my 109 I had my vert stab taken out... I spun all the way to the ground, but in the last couple of seconds as I able to level out just enough not to explode on impact, and ended up getting a successful landing on one of the hanger pads!
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A few bad words were said.
:rofl
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LOL my "best" would definitely be a week or so ago, bringing home a Tempest to a base right on the edge of a massive Knit/Rook furball that had been raging for several hours. Base was "on the edge" mind you, but far enough away that it should have been safe... or so I thought :noid
I think I had 5 or 6 kills, less than 20 rounds of cannon left, vapors in the fuel tank, and thoughts of hitting the rearm pad. There were at lease a dozen other friendlies lifting off or coming back at the same time, and all of a sudden I hear "REAPER, check the 190!!" "CHECK SIX! CHECK SIX!!!" "Watch it on the field!"
At this point I'm flaps full out, gear down, probably doing less than 100mph and about 10 feet off the runway about to make a squeeky perfect landing, when I hear the calls and look back to see some sack gobbler in a suicide 190D streaking in, 400 off my six and closing fast for a "straight down the runway" suicide vulch! Tracers are flying by me, then parts are falling off..... uh oh. :confused: :uhoh
Somehow, I didn't eat the big one. He got my tail, right wing, and engine. I was slow enough that what was left of my Tempest crashed to the runway and started rolling, removing the other wing and prop, leaving nothing but the nose and cockpit of the plane, me alive, upside down, hollerin' and cussin' up a storm.
And yet I "landed successfully!" :rock :rock :rock
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Probably a 262 landing with one engine and both wingtips gone.. Lots of rudder work! :rock
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A few bad words were said.
Wiley.
:rofl
Last week a few of us decided to do a fighter sweep in P-39's, here was the final result. :)
(http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq209/Soulyss/39_CV_landing.jpg)
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262 with half a wing missing no landing gear and 1 engine. it felt better than my woman to click end sortie. :aok
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Ki61....coming in with no ailerons and one elevator missing.....flew half a sector....couldn't line up straight down the runway landed hard broke the gear but bounced and skidded into the bomber hanger (old field layout) missing or broke parts everywhere.
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Had a wirb or Osty take off my outer wing in a B-25H. I was low to the ground, and slow. Through a combination of determination, lightning quick reaction speeds, and sheer bloody luck, I managed to kill the opposite engine, stomp rudder, pop flaps, gear at the last second (deploying as I touched down) and rode the low wheel for a while before carefully plopping down on the grass. Luckily I was away from the guy that shot my wing off! I taxied all the way back to the V-base I was defending for a safe landing. I have yet to reproduce this feat in a B-25H!!
Another time I had my tail feathers popped off in an F4u-1 defending a field. Some dweeb in a wirb was trying to vulch the runway and driving to the field. Took off both my elevators. I managed to use throttle, gear, and flaps to adjust my pitch, landed in a straight line (unfortunately heading AWAY from the field I just flew past) and set her down gently. I turned around and drove my way back to the field (at least a few miles by this point) for a safe landing.
Both in the MA, both some time back. I get a lot of damaged landings, but these 2 really stood out. First one because it was so rare. Second one because I rarely land without elevators intact (the F4u is so forgiving in this game -- in real life it would have done me in!)
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Don't know if it would be my "best", but certainly my most frightening for my virtual crew. Was in a B-24 and some fighters and an osti beat me to heck and back. 1 plane left and missing: Oil in 3 engines, 2-3 gas leaks, 3 engines dead, 2 gear out, far too many holes to count and many other parts shot off. Had to bring the single B-24 back home on 1 engine for about a sector with almost no gas while an osti shot at me on approach to land at the port (old port and was landing on the dock that runs parallel with the water line). B-24s don't fly so well with 1 engine, they tend to fall...fast. :)
B-25H is the thing I seem to break the most, a lot of my sorties end up being 2x 1/2 winged drives (literally drives) a sector back to base while enemies search for me.
I break far too many things before landing, it's a trouble I need to fix someday. Flying for 1/2 a sector and landing an F2.B with no V-stab, no that is fun. :D
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Hardest landing I can remember was a 190 with 1 missing aileron, no elevators, and no rudder. You never realize how much you appreciate having elevator or rudder controls until you've lost them.
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I've got to post this even though it was a ditch. This was before the days of drone bombers. B25 I believe it was. No wingtips, no vert stab, one engine. My gunner didn't even realize we had a problem, kept saying "do this, do that." I had my work cut out for me just getting it on the ground. If you insist on actual landing, well i've done the no wingtips thing a few times in a ki84, ditched a 163 this way just the other day within feet of the runway. Oh the perkies! :cry
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B-25s are a new addition. They have always had drones (referring to the -25C).
Also, no wingtips, no v-stab, 1 engine out, is not a flyable condition. The 1 engine would pull you and the opposite wing would drop as well, something you could not correct without ailerons OR a rudder (which you didn't have because your stab was gone).
Sorry, gotta call BS on that one.
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(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx147/MarineUS/Aces%20High/ahss201.jpg)
in the training arena - just for fun
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx147/MarineUS/Aces%20High/ahss194.jpg)
no damage????
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx147/MarineUS/Aces%20High/ahss46.jpg)
annnd my magic planes! "Night timeeeee. DAY TIME!"
Hmm...I don't have a photo of my worst landing, but I have the story :)
I was in my beloved B17, flying towards the evil Rook empire and it's strats. I reached an altitude of 25K when I came across two 190's. After a brief scrap, sending both planes spiraling down in flames, I changed course to prevent them from finding me on their re-up. Once at the strategic target I was attacked by a speedy 163 and it's canons of doom. At this point I lost 2 engines but was able to complete my drop and the 163 rtb'd (fuel?). On the run home, still climbing at 28K, feeding my hamsters more carrots to make the props go faster I was again attacked by two 190's...but there was a 110 with them this go round. In short all three go down, I lose 3 engines, I lose both flaps ailerons, and elevators. I had reached 34K (trying to run when I starting getting close to Winchester) and before I could start to lose alt, my last engine shuts off.....I had run out of fuel. I had forgotten that those 30mm had punched my fuel tanks :O
So I glided for what seemed like an eternity. 1 bomber, alone, against the world lol. I kept her up for over 3 sectors. After what seemed like the longest glide known to man, I finally spot land! "YES!" I thought....only to hear a rumbling motor in the distance. "Probably just a friendly from the field up here." *looks at clipboard - no green dots* "Oh sh**....." I was on my final to the field, hoping to get within ack range before he could catch up, but alas, it was not to be....he made a pass in his P47, my pilot tried to catch a round with his face and got wounded. I black out, no gear, and hear my plane smash into the runway and begin the slide to victory. My pilot awoke some seconds later. Just in time to find his clipboard and hit the "End flight" key and magically disappear into the tower :D
Enjoy the story and remember, when you see a B17 trying to do a barrel roll.....it's probably me and it's best that you let me die of my own accord. :rofl
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Also, no wingtips, no v-stab, 1 engine out, is not a flyable condition.
LOL Krusty, everything missing is a flyable condition as far as I'm concerned!
How far can you fly like that?
[Ron White] All the way to the scene of the crash! [/Ron White]
:rofl :rofl
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LOL Krusty, everything missing is a flyable condition as far as I'm concerned!
How far can you fly like that?
[Ron White] All the way to the scene of the crash! [/Ron White]
:rofl :rofl
lol i love that skit
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Krusty, it could have been a b24 or maybe some other buff. This was very early AH days, probably before pay to play. I remember having to throttle down considerably to keep flying and I wasn't able to maintain my altitude but it was a controlled descent. I was using engine speed for control as well. I think I was lucky to be rolled at an angle to compensate for the engine thing. The flight path was a long slow turn to one side and gradually downward . We had cons on us at the time which was why my gunner didn't notice. The distance we traveled was fairly short, probably about normal gliding distance from a height of about 2k.
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(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/Chatter_Dead-1.jpg)
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262 with Pilot wound and part of my left wing gone...I was on final aproach and blacked out from PW..
I skid in on the runway with gear up and literally heard 6 bounces from touchdown and going airborne again.
Got a successful luckily :D
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(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/AH2%20screenshots/v4.png)
D3A 99% vulched, 1% landed successfully. :D
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Thought I posted already. Oh well.
Had no wing tips on either wing of my 262. Flying with flaps and rudder only. That was fun.
That was back when the 262 wings would snap if you sneezed to hard.
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Man i would have to go through alot of films for my best ones lol but heres a couple, one from the AvA the other MA
Figured out a plane wont fly without its wings
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/ouch.jpg)
This pic i lost my wing and landing gear and various other parts :rofl , im all shot up, oil all over the place i have a PW just trying to make it home with 5 kills, just slide off the runway and up the hill but i lived :x thank my ground crew for the pics
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/ouch1.jpg)
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/ouch2.jpg)
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In the 'Husky' scenario, I ended up winning a fight with 3 Me109s in my P38 but ended up with;
half a wing missing
1 flap stuck
1 bad radiator
the other engine had an oil hit
half an elevator
1 vertical stab
1 rudder
2 MGs shot out
20MM cannon shot out
and 1 aileron
The best thing was the stuck flap actually helped me keep the thing level because it was opposing the weight of the undamaged wing. I cycled the engines so neither would die on me, I'd let the rad damaged engine run until it was close to overheating and then restart the oil damaged one. Once the rad engine cooled down, I would turn it back on until it red-lined again.
None of my gear were damaged but I landed wheels up, I figured it would flip otherwise.
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just watch my carrier landing, i like it save in a box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_HFzr18qQ
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I have two stories that really stand out in my mind when it comes down to really close landings.
One was in a 38J (suprise suprise :D) I got shot up by a nik with 9 kills, ending up losing my elevators, 1 aileron, an engine and wingtip. I cannot believe I actually landed that bird, and now that I look back on it, I'm ashamed. ;)
Second one was in FSO, back about a year or two ago, it was one of my first FSO's with the 82nd. We had a really good turnout, around 12 people were flying with us on TS. It was a pacific setup and we were assigned F6F's. I had a few kills, but wasnt damaged at all.
Once the CV was in sight, I checked my fuel to find only drops in my tank, and the frame was 2 minutes from ending. I was bringing it back on the deck at about 200 feet, throttled back as much as possible. Around 3k out from the CV, my engine dies. I ended up having to land diagonally on the front of the CV, slamming into the tower and doing a few flips. Thirty seconds later, the frame ended.
My reaction on Teamspeak was priceless, I was going crazy. I think I remember waking up everyone in my house. :lol
I also fell asleep during an FSO once, flew through a huge furball while everyone was screaming at me, but thats something else. :D
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I landed an F6F with both wing tips missing. Actually landed it on the dirt and taxied to the tarmac for a successful landing.
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B-17 with both elevators, one aileron, 2 engines, rudder, the right gear gone PLUS a PW.
either that or an FM-2 with no elevators, no ailerons, and engine oil gone
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Lanc, 1 engine left, 1 elevator missing, one rudder, one aileron, landing gear broken off, and pilot wound.
I made it, albiet very slowly.
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annnd my magic planes! "Night timeeeee. DAY TIME!"
YESSS!!!! Night timeeeeeee.... DAY TIME! whatre you doing? im playing a game called night time day time! wanna play!!!??? :rofl
best for me was 262 wings clipped 1 engine and 1 elevator hehe
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5 kills in a 262, flying 4 sectors to home with half a wing, one engine, gear and right horizontal stab missing and an La following me like a puppy. He ran outta gas first. was a pain, but made it ;)
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P47-M, half a wing, oil hit all over the windshield engine out, left landing gear gone, pilot wound passing out, lined up on the carrier, passed out just as I was about to slide it in wheels up, came to just as she was tipping off the front of the carrier, ended mission just as she was going over the side, safe...............
Had to take a 10 minute break after that, heart pounding, palms sweating, and I think I may have been closing my eyes a little each time I passed out.
Fun stuff, just yesterday BTW.
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AR234 with NO elevators. Used throttle to control alt and rudder sideslip to steer. Landed on the ground and taxi to runway.
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(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc473/UnkShadow/ahss6.jpg)
The most damage I've landed with that I have a screen shot of.
I've landed a 262 with no wing tips. My 1st 262 I might add. :lol I'm glad the rudder on it is nice and responsive. :rofl
I have also landed an IL-2 with no elevators. That was a trip. Oh boy...
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here are mine best landing with alot of missing plane parts and end result was a successful landing. these shots are from Phillipine Phandango scenario. I am rtbing for a reload to go out for a second run. But I ran into a few problems when someone put this tree in front of the runway. here is the first shot of the approach
(http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/bikermedic8/roh-roh.jpg)
after tree clipping left wing
(http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/bikermedic8/ouch.jpg)
final landing
(http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/bikermedic8/endofphase1.jpg)
and here is my first cv landing in a p38 kinda lost some wings after touchdown and used the tower in a way to help me stop
(http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/bikermedic8/ava%20screenshots/ahss117copy.jpg)
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Make way for a professional... :)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Snap2-11.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Snap34.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/land9.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/landing23.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/deadcat.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/AssistedLanding.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Snap3333333.jpg)
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Question to everyone who's landed a B-25 with one wingtip missing (or rather, to anyone who's failed to crash it with one wingtip, and remain in some semblance of controlled flight): how?
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Question to everyone who's landed a B-25 with one wingtip missing (or rather, to anyone who's failed to crash it with one wingtip, and remain in some semblance of controlled flight): how?
Very carefully. I normally put down flaps, cut power to the opposing engine and rudder/aileron/elevator hard in the direction of the good wing.
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(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8100/toughbird.jpg) (http://img524.imageshack.us/i/toughbird.jpg/)
Most of these pictures look like bad landings that RESULTED in missing parts. (You don't fly missing 1/2 your fuselage)
THIS B-17 however, flew back to base and landed missing BOTH wings and all control surfaces but Rudder and Left Elevator. Happened a year ago or so. It was a brutal, BRUTAL flight back. Lost the left wing to gunfire, lost the other wing to a 190 ram. Was trying to keep her level with most of my tail shot off, when one of the planes I had previously killed (out of 4 that run) re-upped. Horrible shot, he flew in too fast for the wounded, diving buff. Missed most of the shots but plowed right into the right wing. Which, wonderfully, made the plane easy(er) to fly. With altitude running out, I landed this battered beast at the hot front-line base. Took a few pics, and landed her!
I strongly do NOT recommend ever trying this again..... hurts your rudder wrist.
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^ hahaha that's a good one :aok
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BGV0KfTmA
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ill post a film, this is sick i was in a corsair and i got a mossi and then went for this m3 somehow during the explosion of the m3 i got a pw and engine oil then engine quit. Lucky enough i was on a down hill slope towards the base, during the blackouts i would let gear down and finally almost there in a blackout i hit the ground, cart wheeled the plane landed backwards going down the hill. Hit f3 mode and looked back, TREES!! I break a horizonal stab. And both of half the wings. Im steering with the rudder backwards and shooting the guns to make me go faster down the hill. I get 1 final blackout and i wake up on the runway lol. 2 victories definetly saved the film. Ill edit and post it
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P-38 with no ailerons (had to use engines to turn :lol )
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My best landing was about a year ago, I was winging w a squaddy both of us in 262's, we fly 1 sector to a furball by a nme base, there was about 3 rook cvs right by the Abase n 2 went down quick also my squaddy, i managed to get 3 kills n had a oil hit n a fuel leak, tried to run but there was about 15 nme w more alt than me and i had to land on our cv, while turning to the cv to land a nme comes screaming in guns ablazing and he augers n i get a PW and a stablizer missin, was going too fast to land on cv safely and i hit the cv at a freak angle n i end up missin a wing then i end up in the water thinking i died, but no YOU DIED text on screen so i ended sortie quickly and i got the safe landing n no death or ditch LOL :x
wish i had a film of it but i dont :cry
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I've flown long distances landed a P-51 several times with half of one wing missing. what worked for me was keeping the speed as high as possible until approach and keeping it rolled slightly to the side with the entire wing. The moment you roll much to the side with the missing wing it's back to the tower. I've also landed one once with no elevators (and also crashed several times with no elevators). I found flying with no elevators is much harder than with half a wing missing.
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Condor, if you roll out a notch of flaps, then another, until you have full flaps out, it significantly increases lif and decreases the wing dip. US planes are the easiest to land without a wingtip.
Now, a Ki84, or a Fw190... THOSE are harder! The flaps don't come out until you're almost stalled. Takes a bit of finessing, controlled stalling at nose high angles, etc.
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Best landing I have made thus far:
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/exodus2243/80th3.jpg)
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/exodus2243/80th4.jpg)
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/exodus2243/80th5.jpg)
Landing on top of a bomber does in fact register as a successful landing by the way. :) It's a shame there was no fire in this incident. :o
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Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.
There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.
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Landing Gear optional. What's the best landing you've pulled off? (Not ditch)
Mine were: B26 with both elevators gone, and 190Dora missing part of a wing.
Spit V with 1/2 a right wing
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Impossible landing: Best there ever was in a bomber. Lots of excitement and suspense..will he or won't he make it?
http://download395.mediafire.com/1k1jsc89j22g/yzjvkw155mf/impossible+landing.ahf
:joystick:
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You forgot to mention your flaps, which seem just fine...... :salute
(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8100/toughbird.jpg) (http://img524.imageshack.us/i/toughbird.jpg/)
Most of these pictures look like bad landings that RESULTED in missing parts. (You don't fly missing 1/2 your fuselage)
THIS B-17 however, flew back to base and landed missing BOTH wings and all control surfaces but Rudder and Left Elevator. Happened a year ago or so. It was a brutal, BRUTAL flight back. Lost the left wing to gunfire, lost the other wing to a 190 ram. Was trying to keep her level with most of my tail shot off, when one of the planes I had previously killed (out of 4 that run) re-upped. Horrible shot, he flew in too fast for the wounded, diving buff. Missed most of the shots but plowed right into the right wing. Which, wonderfully, made the plane easy(er) to fly. With altitude running out, I landed this battered beast at the hot front-line base. Took a few pics, and landed her!
I strongly do NOT recommend ever trying this again..... hurts your rudder wrist.
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Last thing in the world I want to do is agree with Krusty........ But this well respected enemy is 100% correct.
Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.
There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.
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Bah... I think you all should start differentiating between DAMAGED landings... Where you have to use skill to overcome combat damage and land safely... and BAD LANDINGS, where you are perfectly intact and about to touch down then through no skill of your own survive a horrible wreck.
There's a big difference from the B-25 missing parts landing to the A6M on perfect landing that clips a tree 10 feet up and ditches safely.
Not all, just some. Mine was all combat related. :joystick:
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I once landed a Ki61 without and control surfaces except the rudder. Using engine power to control the pitch and the rudder to control the turn and roll, belly landing it (I was missing a gear). I had the good fortune of being lined up with runway at long vis range. Sadly that replay is on my old laptop which had the HDD go poof. :frown:
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Ah, yes. Did have flaps. Also had a pilot wound.
You forgot to mention your flaps, which seem just fine...... :salute
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last august. il2 vs an ostie and a panzer. ostie does me some damage.
first wing tip gone:
(http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8383/onewinggone.jpg) (http://img585.imageshack.us/i/onewinggone.jpg/)
second wing gone:
(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5442/2winggone.jpg) (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/2winggone.jpg/)
time to rtb:
(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/476/rtbtobase.jpg) (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/rtbtobase.jpg/)
almost there:
(http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/6775/onfinal.jpg) (http://img815.imageshack.us/i/onfinal.jpg/)
safe landing:
(http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1593/touchdown.jpg) (http://img840.imageshack.us/i/touchdown.jpg/)
:neener:
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Me-262 with no elevators or ailerons.
I had to fly by flaps, throttle control, and rudder.
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I seem to remember this one actually flew better after the termites got at it, but had to land eventually for fuel :rofl
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2300/termites2.jpg) (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/termites2.jpg/)
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Lost both my wingtips to a HO once in a P38, But he went down. On my way back to base I encountered a 190A8 and shot him down, so I landed 2 kills missing both wingtips.
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had a 262 with no wingtips, got home from 20k to the deck using throttle and rudder. when i got to the landing i found out the gear was gone and i belly landed it, losing all my parts and was 1 millimeter away from the grass when i stopped so i could land my 4 kills
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Upped a fm2 from a cv, had a couple of fights, got a kill, got shot up - went back to land on the cv (needed more eggs) oil on windscreen made it difficult to see, misjudged the glide slope, ended up landing below the flight deck (ie, on the quarter deck). Found it a bit funny, was being rearmed, but no way I could get back up (no wings, engine etc by this time). Called it out to a squaddie (bamboo) who was flying around, he almost crashed laughing.
Checked the film, but it shows me nowhere near the cv being rearmed :mad:
Wurzel
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Mine was more of a takeoff,,,
Was headed to enemy base with a goon, As I was getting close, noticed base was too hot with cons
So i landed a couple miles away, unfortunately I clipped a wing off while driving the goon to a spot that gave me room to takeoff again, so i carefully clipped the other wing off and was able take off again, barely keeping the plane airborne (wep on and standing on the rudder) ended up making it to the base and got the capture :D
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Mine was more of a takeoff,,,
Was headed to enemy base with a goon, As I was getting close, noticed base was too hot with cons
So i landed a couple miles away, unfortunately I clipped a wing off while driving the goon to a spot that gave me room to takeoff again, so i carefully clipped the other wing off and was able take off again, barely keeping the plane airborne (wep on and standing on the rudder) ended up making it to the base and got the capture :D
kinda funny similar deal, I was in an A20 a few months ago defending a field, shot down a 190D but got shot up pretty badly by an LA7 and lost both outer wings. Couldn't do anything but nose over and try to put her down on the beach with hopes of taxiing back to the field. However, while airborne I had seen a C47 coming in to land on the beach a ways off from our town, hoping to hide while his buddies worked the town I guess. I managed to land the crippled A20 on the beach facing in the general direction of town and where I had seen the goon land, and the LA had been killed by a friendly right after hitting me, so there wasn't any immediate threat. Instead of taxiing back to the field I idled her up and took off down the beach on 3 wheels, goon hunting in my wingless A20! (I still to this day don't know why I didn't just ditch and get a new plane, but I guess in the heat of the moment, since I was pointed the right direction, I just said "why the heck not?!?" )
Well, he was right where I thought he would be, and sure enough he heard or saw me coming because he cranked up and tried to turn around take off in the other direction...... didn't work out too well for him, I filled him with 0.50's before he could get wheels up! Unfortunately for me I had a bit of speed built up and in order to get the nose up to hit him from the range I was shooting from I had to put in a bit of up elevator to get her to rotate..... it couldn't have been a half a secong after he went boom I managed to break my gear off and ended up ditching.... Would have liked to been able to land that one! :rofl :rofl
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i was messing around in an offline mission today and lost half a wing in a p40, after that happened a zero pooped up in front of me so i shot, blew him up and landed 4 kills :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:he got PAWNED
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Probably a 234 with no elevators, 1 aileron, and no nose gear.
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(http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/k616/skeeterpro1/ahss4.jpg)
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I was flying a P-38 and got both vertical stabs shot clean off. Flew almost a whole sector back to base by alternating engine power. It's interesting to watch.
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FW 190A-8 both outer wing edges gone. Lost them to one of ThunderEgg's High Alt Buff missions(Salute 91st). I was at just over 30,000 when the damage occurred. I was sweating like a mad man trying to keep it level and descending for what seemed like 10-15 mins. It kept wanting to roll over towards the right. I am sure I was missing more than just the wing tips. I slid it onto the runway and got a successful landing and two bomber kills to boot. :rock