The One Winged Wonder -- Not my first time, but maybe on THIS plane

[Mayhem McAwesome]

I landed it!:pilotfly:

 

 

One wing blown off after a somewhat (wildly) ill-considered attack on an irresistible massing of enemy tanks... oh boy, rough day, eh? - we all know how it usually goes from then on :doh:

 

indeed, this is normally where a wiser person would go and eject... perhaps dare as much as fly somewhere further from enemy lines and then do the reasonable, sane thing and expedite the pulling of the yellow thingies aflankst the seat...

 

...well - I am not wise, sane, nor reasonable.... decreasingly sober too, admittedly at the time of this happening :huh::music_whistling::megalol:

 

 

but land it I did!

 

the left wing was largely more so scattered in bits and pieces on some enemy occupied hillside than it was attached to the burning remains of my erstwhile airworthy airplane... but then again - I muscled my way (apparently ALL of one's hydraulic might can leak out off a torn wing) into a winding path backwards-ish towards whence I came - or at least in that general direction - and once I found the opportunity - I dared and flew it onto an "excellent landing"*

 

*landing quality ratings as per the widely accepted system of:

"walk away"=Good; "use plane again"=Excellent; "without major repairs"=Perfect

 

 

anyhow -- for those who doubt or just wanna watch just how lucky a trigger-happy warthog-rider can get at dire times, I thus-by submit the full recorded track of the event for your appreciation :thumbup:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8JknrBkizVCaEt2eV9kemNacnc/view?usp=sharing

 

and maybe, those more A10-savvy than myself might even point out where I could have done better a job in ways of addressing such relevant predicament as this rapidly became...

(other than not repeating the happy-go-lucky tank attack - that was plain stupid, I know :doh:)

 

 

as for why this wasn't my first time landing with "less airplane" than I took off with: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14095 <-- I was the pilot they call "Moach" in that instance

Edited May 27, 2015 by Mayhem McAwesome
added reference to other time flying whilst short a wing