debris hitting engine was it common?

[il2crashesnfails]

First time I got some debris to hit my engine. Totally destroyed the prop. 

Anyone know if this was common in ww2?

 

 

 

[Dijital_Majik]

2 hours ago, il2crashesnfails said:

First time I got some debris to hit my engine. Totally destroyed the prop. 

Anyone know if this was common in ww2?

 

Debris forced Hartmann to crash land a lot, because he'd open fire too close to avoid it.

Same thing happens to me a lot as well, but only because I can't hit anything unless the plane is filling my windscreen ?

[Raptorattacker]

CnF, if YOU were the pilot I would imagine that ANYTHING untoward were common, especially debris hitting the prop. I mean, even when you escape unscathed from that one you go and land on the mainline to Petrograd, FIVE minutes before the noon special is due!!

I REALLY don't know!

[Reggie_Mental]

Debris has hit me in sim battles too. Usually bends the prop.

[il2crashesnfails]

10 hours ago, Dijital_Majik said:

 

Debris forced Hartmann to crash land a lot, because he'd open fire too close to avoid it.

Same thing happens to me a lot as well, but only because I can't hit anything unless the plane is filling my windscreen ?

 

I guess if Hartmann was waiting to get that close it must be the correct thing to do.

[Reggie_Mental]

14 hours ago, il2crashesnfails said:

First time I got some debris to hit my engine. Totally destroyed the prop. 

Anyone know if this was common in ww2?

 

 

 

What impresses me is you downing an Me262 in a MiG3. 

 

The MiG is much underrated, but that Schwalbe must have been landing/taking off?

[il2crashesnfails]

7 hours ago, Reggie_Mental said:

What impresses me is you downing an Me262 in a MiG3. 

 

The MiG is much underrated, but that Schwalbe must have been landing/taking off?

 

haha yeah pretty much only time I would have a chance

[TWC_TWC_SLAG]

There was a case in, WWII, of a P-47 shooting up a 109.  The German pilot bailed out, and went right into the P47's propeller!  With all of the gore and the shock from the incident, the P-47 pilot started to bail out, but his wing man convinced him to stay with the plane to see if it would still fly.  It did, and they made it back to England.  I think that was in Robert Johnson's book "Thunderbolt".

 

TWC_SLAG

Edited April 5, 2020 by TWC_SLAG
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[il2crashesnfails]

On 4/5/2020 at 10:10 AM, TWC_SLAG said:

There was a case in, WWII, of a P-47 shooting up a 109.  The German pilot bailed out, and went right into the P47's propeller!  With all of the gore and the shock from the incident, the P-47 pilot started to bail out, but his wing man convinced him to stay with the plane to see if it would still fly.  It did, and they made it back to England.  I think that was in Robert Johnson's book "Thunderbolt".

 

TWC_SLAG

 

wow never heard of anything like that happening!

[56RAF_Roblex]

Had the same happen to me a few times.

 

Here is one

 

 

 

I also had it happen in a mission and fear of doing it twice in row made me lose the engine on the next mission anyway ?

 

https://roblex56raf.livejournal.com/31999.html

 

https://roblex56raf.livejournal.com/32189.html

Edited April 7, 2020 by 56RAF_Roblex

[HappyHaddock]

On 4/5/2020 at 1:10 AM, TWC_SLAG said:

There was a case in, WWII, of a P-47 shooting up a 109.  The German pilot bailed out, and went right into the P47's propeller!  With all of the gore and the shock from the incident, the P-47 pilot started to bail out, but his wing man convinced him to stay with the plane to see if it would still fly.  It did, and they made it back to England.  I think that was in Robert Johnson's book "Thunderbolt".

 

TWC_SLAG

 

Not quite as severe but my wife's elderly uncle served in bomber command on an RAF Halifax all the way through WWII. He recalled a rather gory yet slightly amusing story (it may well be that in real life it was more gory and less amusing and he simply tried to lighten his anecdote around the dinner table) of the lower leg of a German fighter pilot killed when his plane exploded striking their Halifax and somehow getting tangled up such that for the entire return to base the flapping foot kept kicking the outside of the aircraft.

 

HH

 

[Danziger]

I definitely get the wood prop of the D9 all chewed up on many occasions. I am starting to think it is much more sensitive to debris than other props. 

 

Never had anyone falling into it or severed legs kicking at my plane incessantly... ?