Просто в качестве иллюстрации...
Где-то в начале оживленной дискуссии сетовали на недостаток фактов.
Подергав бороду, вспомнил, что Гугль сегодня знает все.
Потратил около 50 мин на поиск. Ключевые слова: wing failure lost + тип самолета (подставлял только US, UK, но вылезло и для иных).
Результаты ниже.
F3A-1 (Corsair Mk. III):...Poor production techniques and shabby quality control meant that these aircraft were red-lined for speed and prohibited from aerobatics after several lost their wings....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F4U_Corsair
24-02-'42 P-39-Lost wing in flight and crashed.
http://www.slobberinwolfhounds.com/s...1/mishaps.html
The right wing of his 51 broke in a power dive, came back across the top of the plane and cut off the canopy. When we pulled him out of the rice paddy the top of his head had been sliced off as if with a knife.
http://www.winthrop.dk/stanwood.html
On an almost perfect afternoon for flyng, Edith was passenger in an AT-6. The pilot was putting the plane through standard flight maneuvers including barrel rolls and loops. While trying to pull out of a dive, a portion of one wing was torn loose. The plane spun out of control.
http://wwii-women-pilots.org/WASP_KIA/38KIA.html
The A-36 dove at speeds approaching 500 mph; the brakes only reduced the speed to about 350mph. Unfortunately, one of the test airplanes crashed because it lost its wings during a vertical dive.
http://www.aviation-history.com/north-american/a36.html
Lt Colonel Gerald Price, Peaslee’s Deputy, was killed when his Mustang lost a wing in Fighter Training on August 23rd near Diddington.
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...ing-force.html
...several accidents to Spitfire V aircraft in service which were attributed to the development of excessive accelerations during the pull-out from dives, with consequent failure of the wing structure.
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/pol...e-22553-3.html
Jan 41...Mk I....N3191...Both wings broke off in dive.
Jul 41...Mk I....X4354...Port wing broke off in dive.
Aug 41...Mk I....X4381...Starboard wing broke off in dive.
Mar 41...Mk I....X4421...Both wings broke off in dive pullout.
Jul 41...Mk I....X4662...Stbd wing broke off in dive pullout.
Jun 41...Mk I....X4680...Wings/tail broke off in dive pullout.
Sep 41...Mk II...P7522...Both wings broke off in dive.
Jun 43...Mk V....BL531...Both wings broke off in dive.
May 42...Mk I....P9309...Lost wing in flight.
Apr 43...Mk I....X4234...Lost wing in spin.
Jan 43...Mk I....X4854...Starboard wing broke off in flight.
Nov 40...Mk II...P7593...Stbd wing and tail broke off in flight.
Dec 41...Mk II...P8183...Port wing broke off in flight.
Jun 42...Mk II...P8644...Starboard wing broke off in flight.
Jun 43...Mk V....BL290...Port wing broke off in flight.
May 43...Mk V....BR627...Port wing failed in spin.
Feb 45...Mk IX...MH349...Wing failed during aerobatics.(pg.318)
Sep 46...Mk IX...MJ843...Port wing, tailplane broke off in loop.
Jul 42...Mk VI...AB200...Wings buckled in dive at 450mph IAS.
Apr 44...Mk IX...MA308...Wings severely buckled around cannons.(pg.63)
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1022
16/01/1941 234 Sqdn SpitfireI N3191 Lost wings in dive near Truro
http://www.hrmtech.com/SIG/losses.asp
21 year old pilot Sgt. John Fredrick MacNamara was killed in the crash due to port wing failure after a violent pull out on emerging from low cloud. The pilot was buried in his hometown of Bristol.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?p=1158030
21 December - Curtiss XSB2C-1 Helldiver, BuNo 1758, destroyed after suffering inflight wing failure. Pilot Baron T. Hulse bails out. Airframe had previously crashed on 8 February 1941 due to engine failure during approach. Sustained damage to fuselage but was repaired.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...2%80%931949%29
9 April - P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-12937, flown by Col. Ben Kelsey, gets into inverted spin during dive flap test, loses one wing and entire tail section. Kelsey bails out, suffers broken ankle, while P-38 hits flat on hillside near Calabasas, California.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...2%80%931949%29
October - The Lavochkin La-7, which entered combat testing in September, suffers from a batch of flawed wings and causes six accidents, four of them fatal, which causes the fighter to be grounded until the cause is determined to be a defect in the wing spar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...2%80%931949%29
22 March - Prototype Grumman XF3F-1, BuNo 9727 (1st), c/n 257, company model G.11, disintegrates when pulled sharply out of a terminal velocity dive, the tenth and final such test in six flights, killing pilot Jimmy Collins. G-forces in this dive estimated at 12-13, wrenching wings off, engine torn from mount.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...2%80%931949%29
In July several A-1s crashed with wing failure due to plywood delamination. (Focke-Wulf Ta 154).
http://johnmc99.com/german_fighter_aircraft2.htm