The warthog can take an amazing pounding and stay in the air... So could the old WWII bombers.
One of the projects a place I worked for was working on was software to "nutral stick" for fighters... so that even after sustaining heavy damage, the pilot could still fly the craft with stick neutral.... IE: If the damage caused a hard left ya, the software would compensate for it, and the pilot could fly with stick in middle position to stay level, instead of having to keep the stick hard right to compensate for the yaw....
Basically he didn't have to fight to keep the craft level, but fly as he normally would.
Thanks, that's very interesting. I was not aware such a system existed but it makes good sense.
Years ago I was quite a fan of the air war in WWII. I read most anything I could get my hands on, different theaters and fighters and bombers.
I recall how difficult it was for the pilot or pilots to keep those planes flying when they had been heavily damaged. Some of the stories were reflective of the exceptional valor of the men flying those planes.