The game is IL2 Sturmovik Great Battles!




I was returning from a bombing mission flying the A20 Havoc. Suddenly a couple of bf109s got on my tail and fired. They scored a direct hit! Blowing one of my elevators clean off. This event violently inverted my A20. I found myself in the dreaded inverted spin! Try as I may to recover from this inverted spin nothing much worked. So, in a moment of panic I lowered the landing gear and applied FULL flaps. To my surprise this action immediately restored the the A20 to a somewhat level flight!



IL2 Sturmovik is a realistic WW2 flight sim. In this video I think it emulated the shock one would experience when in an inverted spin. Flight simulator spins are a difficult thing to recreate.


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Crashes and fails:
crashes 'n' fails.