Bent wings ? How does it end ?

[gdeschodt]

Newb Q: After 200 hours of playing (or more), for the first time something I hit blew up very close under me and bent both my wings !!! The sim displayed "critical damage" but the plane actually flew OK...  I made the mistake of putting autopilot on for a few seconds to take a picture, instead of pausing (my bad) and... the damn autopilot decided to bail the pilot out!!!  I *really* wanted a chance to land this plane with cracked and bent wing (the infamous Typhoon-corsair!!)  and see if the wings fell off or what, but I never got the chance. So since this will be hard to reproduce, I was wondering if one of you landed with seriously bent wings and what happened ? 

[CountZero]

 

Edited December 19, 2022 by CountZero

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Yet another example that Tempest is an UFO plane ?

[Trooper117]

It's a Stukaphoon... no problem, they were quite common...

[RedeyeStorm]

Well I have flown several types with bent wings. Fly very, very, very smoothly and the wings stay attached. 

[IckyATLAS]

5 hours ago, gdeschodt said:

Newb Q: After 200 hours of playing (or more), for the first time something I hit blew up very close under me and bent both my wings !!! The sim displayed "critical damage" but the plane actually flew OK...  I made the mistake of putting autopilot on for a few seconds to take a picture, instead of pausing (my bad) and... the damn autopilot decided to bail the pilot out!!!  I *really* wanted a chance to land this plane with cracked and bent wing (the infamous Typhoon-corsair!!)  and see if the wings fell off or what, but I never got the chance. So since this will be hard to reproduce, I was wondering if one of you landed with seriously bent wings and what happened ? 

What are these very nice Christmas patterns on one side of the picture. Like your camera optics polarized lenses are weird.

[Koziolek]

11 minutes ago, IckyATLAS said:

What are these very nice Christmas patterns on one side of the picture. Like your camera optics polarized lenses are weird.

I would say it is a photo of a monitor screen

[Carl_infar]

3 hours ago, 1PL-Husar-1Esk said:

Yet another example that Tempest is an UFO plane ?

Its a typhoon....

[CountZero]

59 minutes ago, Carl_infar said:

Its a typhoon....

I think they changed it to UAP

[RyanR]

 

 

The wing will fail when you put load on it....

 

-Ryan

[Mtnbiker1998]

8 hours ago, RedeyeStorm said:

Well I have flown several types with bent wings. Fly very, very, very smoothly and the wings stay attached. 

Yep, pull too many Gs and SNAP!

 

Been there a few times for sure...

[Ram399]

12 hours ago, gdeschodt said:

I was wondering if one of you landed with seriously bent wings and what happened

While I've never managed to bend both wings in such a symmetrical and dramatic fashion, I did once have a close encounter with some IL-2 debris during a Bf-109 career that resulted in some new airframe geometry.

I did see the loose stabilizer coming and managed to get my prop out of the way but it bounced off the left wing and resulted in this:

Spoiler

(I ask that you ignore the potato quality as I was living in a dorm at the time and limited to a severely overtaxed laptop)

Like in your case the game immediately suggested that I abandon ship, but after some very ginger half rate turns and biplane-speed cruising I managed to make it back to the airfield with the wing still attached.

Luckily I didn't bounce on the landing and successfully made it all the way to parking to complete the mission, though the career did write the airframe off as a total loss.

Spoiler

Note the IL-2 in question off in the distance, still harassing ground units like nothing happened- further proof that their extra flaps and stabilizers are nothing more than anti-fighter countermeasures.

 

[Knarley-Bob]

If it was a P-51, the wings would already be gone.............

[Trooper117]

14 hours ago, Knarley-Bob said:

If it was a P-51, the wings would already be gone.............

 

[CountZero]

14 hours ago, Knarley-Bob said:

If it was a P-51, the wings would already be gone.............

Because it knows it dont need wings to fly... P51 aint no 109 that loses small part of wing tip and drops like a fly...

[jollyjack]

On 12/19/2022 at 1:04 PM, Koziolek said:

I would say it is a photo of a monitor screen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern