Insane Collision Velocities

[spikeyhat09]

So, I'm testing my VTOL plane, and it crashes. you know how when you crash a plane into the ocean, the wings sort of glide away for a bit? well, one of the control surfaces did that, but it was on steroids:

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Please note that no mods were used.

*EDIT: For some reason it decided to upload them in extremely low resolution. in the top picture, the control surface is traveling at over 2000 m/s. also, my plane was traveling no faster than 150 m/s on impact, so something freaky is going on.

Edited October 18, 2012 by spikeyhat09

[royalkingofgames]

infiniglide mabye

[Supernovy]

I have had this happen during crashes before. One winglet actually made it into orbit. It was hilarious.

(to be fair though, the periapsis was about 10Km)

[Punk]

Apparently sometimes when an object gets where its not supposed to because the computer forgets it for second and then picks the physics back up when it is halfway through a wall, the engine freaks out and gives it an unrealistic velocity. This was explained to me in relation to the giants in skyrim putting people in orbit. This might be why your wing is hypersonic.

[cardgame]

I've gotten a standard canard up to 260km before. Didn't quite reach orbital velocity, only made it to like 2100m/s. Drag model is horrible, but there's a mod for it.

[Fendleton]

This is the infinite-glide glitch in action. I've previously tested it and sent a canard nearly 400 kilometers up (this took quite a bit of work, mind). I suspect it has something to do with the way they seem to 'twitch' after they've detached from a crashed aircraft. The canard starts off slow, then accelerates quickly up to about 2km/second (sometimes higher), then stays at that speed until it doesn't have any air for the glitch to push against.

[cardgame]

Infiniglide is dead, baby.