HURRICANE crash at Duxford, Oleg plese wach it.
 

This is the reality. No explosions, no fire, no propeller blades curved, or broken. But we have some grass flying in to the air:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9Br...eature=related

~Cheers!

actually yes, the proppeller blades curved.

pthr than that, the video really shows a soft accidentand in il2 some like these we witnessed bymyself and they didnt differed much.

it would be nic eto see grass floating throw the air tough :)

CHAPEAU! to this pilot

I've had landings like that in Il-2 where one gear was shot-off. Very similar.

It would have been better for the engine if the pilot killed it as soon as he noticed he was veering. Prop-strikes are very bad for an engine. I'm sure it was a terrifying moment though, so I can't blame him.

Great pilot control, he knew he wasn't going to stop before hitting the crowd, watch the rudder and elevators, you can see he kicks left and up on the elevators to nose it over before the tarmac.

But calling it a crash feels a bit harsh? A ground loop is what I would call it...

I was reading a WWII diary the other day where the pilot talked about raising the undercarriage after landing because the aircraft was going to overshoot a wet runway.

Here is a "real" P-47 crash where the props broke and the aeroplane caught fire....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yykln...eature=related

To the contrary, he tries as much as possible to prevent the nose over; but this is basically impossible to avoid on some A/C, there is just no authority anymore on the elevator at such low speeds, and the mass repartition of the Hurricane does the rest...
Same thing for the ground loop aspect: rudder action is feeble compared to an half up landing gear and a wingtip in grass!
Indeed it is too bad he did not cut the engine off before nosing over; it may have been difficult to do when still trying to manoeuver the aircraft...

All these landings or crashes concern different aircraft, on different airfields. The one landing very elegantly on its belly never caught fire (watch the full film of this belly landing which must be floating around...)

The one on fire does not have torn propeller blades...

JV

I don't really see your point. LG failures, ground loops etc ending in nose down attitude have long been modelled in IL2 (as they will be in SoW). See the below sequence:

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...9332072636.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...9332156660.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...9332043872.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...9332012437.jpg

Incidentally the prop is destroyed in your youtube clip.

Both of those, according to the old adage, were good landings.

Cheers!

its not the same plane which is on fire. see the propellor blade. one which slides on runway has it broken while one in fire has it ok.

That is edited footage , the full uncut version is grimm indeed , the shot of the 47 on its back started with the engine cutting out just short of the runway , and ends with whats left of the pilot being draged from the burning remains of his AC, and thats the reality check , belly landing a badly shot up plane and maybe getting away with it , or running out of fuel just short of the runway and not.

I have unfortunately seen a few aircraft crashes at air displays,2 with fatalities.:(
They differ so much depending on angles and speed and the ground they come into contact with.
Apart from one i don't remember seeing any flames,and that was caused by the fuel tanks rupturing on impact.
The Hurricane video first posted, i feel he was in control until the U/C lost direction and the wing dropped as it would.It was highly controlled and not really a crash as such but watching the reaction of the earth and damage was something to be modelled.

The kind of ‘rough landings’ we see in IL2 are pretty much mirrored in the real thing. Here are three examples of B17s showing belly landing, partial gear and a full gear landing resulting in a prop prang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfoxq...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0cF...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbIhX...eature=channel

guys, there's not much a pilot can do in such situations: you just lose pretty much all the controls as speed bleeds down, the gyroscopic effect of engine and prop does the rest, it can drag you peacefully to one side of the airstrip or straignt into parked planes.. there's no good or bad pilot, the only thing you can do is chop the throttle, cut off the fuel, cut magnetoes and brace..