Do wings / other parts get weaker?

[Plummet]

Hi

I've been working on a complex & heavy Eve plane - horizontal landing and take-off.

I've built and tested it out, including the heat protection and re-entry, and had it all ready to go.

Now I've got to the real mission, I'm finding the wings keep snapping off after getting through re-entry and before landing. It seems I have to be incredibly careful with control inputs, but I never had this issue when testing it out before (with Teleport).

I can't figure out what's changed - wondering if parts like wings can get weakened during re-entry, or whether they either survive intact or fail?

I built and tested it after the latest update so I don't think a s/w change is to blame.

 

Thanks

[Plummet]

I think I found the issue. My struts had disappeared. I think I've hit the problem where merging craft causes struts to have the wrong base vessel, so at one of my decoupling points all the struts dissappear...

[Vanamonde]

Oh dear. That sounds bad. 

[Plummet]

On 2/9/2024 at 8:05 PM, Vanamonde said:

Oh dear. That sounds bad. 

Yeah, it cost me a vast amount of time.. I tried rebuilding my ship from top-down, but then hit the same problem later in the mission when docking for refueling. In the end, I teleported in a replacement ship (complete with struts!) with exactly the same fuel state and exactly the same orbit by copying sections from the save file.

[KincaidFrankMF]

I've also had parts move around during a mission so everything was off-centre on my spaceplane...