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Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Russian on February 07, 2003, 10:50:05 PM

This never happened to me before, usually when they snap, I die. But this time it was different. I knew it was a bad idea diving on that 109. :sad:

Lets start from beginning:
After getting 2 kills (Spit and F4) I noticed that one friendly was duking it out with 109 and P47 away from everyone else. Since I’m a good countryman I decided to help. Hell, I’m faster, have more alt and it seems they didn’t see me. :D That seems like a good idea. Giving friendly a courtesy 6 call, I dive on P47 that was about to swap friendly. To make story short, I engaged 109, 109 starts rolling into the ground and I follow him. Ground was closer then I thought and when I pulled up, 2 important parts of my plane fell off.

The rest is self-explanatory (see pics). I landed with 2 kills, minus wings of my plane with a great thought to think about.  :D

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Russian on February 07, 2003, 10:50:40 PM

pic2

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Russian on February 07, 2003, 10:51:35 PM

pic3

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Innominate on February 07, 2003, 10:53:41 PM

bah, with two missing wingtips you can still fight.

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: J_A_B on February 07, 2003, 11:22:44 PM

I think the stang is easier to land with both tips missing than just one.

J_A_B

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Shane on February 08, 2003, 01:08:04 AM

Quote

Originally posted by J_A_B
I think the stang is easier to land with both tips missing than just one.

J_A_B

bah.  try landing your first ride in an arado in which you buzzed a furball for fun and ripped off both ailerons and wingtips.

:D

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Fridaddy on February 08, 2003, 02:11:12 AM

Why do I see a new monty python skit starting here.....

King: Its just a flesh wound
Russian: No its not!
King: Your bleedin wings are gone
Russian: No the're not!

We all know the rest.........................

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: GrimCO on February 08, 2003, 09:22:52 AM

You forgot this Monty skit...

Might I have your wingtips?

My wingtips??? But I'm not dead yet!

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Noctilux on February 08, 2003, 09:23:03 PM

did just that in a D-hog today.  it really is easier with both gone, but it's do-able with just one as well.

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: hogenbor on February 10, 2003, 03:54:45 AM

I actually managed to land a D-Hog with half the left wing missing... I could trim it out more or less. The landing was not exactly 'controlled' but I came to a stand still on the runway and didn't die. That still means 'you have landed succesfully' :D

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: akak on February 10, 2003, 04:42:20 AM

Pulled off something similiar in a Ju-87.  Lost both both right and left wingtips and ailerons and had to use my rudders to turn my plane and successfully landed it.


ack-ack

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Meatwad on February 10, 2003, 10:32:29 AM

Just as your landing, us other rooks were punished by GUERMAN's persistant whines of (and I quote) "I LANDED AT A ENEMY BASE HOW DO I GET OUT" .  After a half hour of this we can tell he is not listening at all (either too little to understand or someone who is crazy), he gets the ol' squelcharoo lol.

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Post by: Frogm4n on February 10, 2003, 10:37:19 AM

so you where the runstang that ran away from my p40

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: narsus on February 10, 2003, 10:57:12 AM

Yeah I had one wing gone with a d-hog and was able to land granted i could only do right turns but hey i am not complaining.

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Noctilux on February 10, 2003, 10:01:53 PM

hey, this is gettin old hat.  today some socially stunted nit in a Lanc was bombing the crap out of our HQ, then stayin around to ackstar the goons on the resup.  i pulled the wings off tryin to get away:

Title: No wings, no problem
Post by: Noctilux on February 10, 2003, 10:06:25 PM

then, not having learned my lesson, i did it in a 262.  obviously, nits got the brains, and i got the good looks. :p