History Main / ClipItsWings

* The space shuttle ''Columbia'' broke up because the area of heat shield on the left wing’s leading edge was damaged by falling foam at launch. The hot gas entering the hole and damaging the internal structure eventually caused most of the left wing to fall apart and tear off. Because it was banked at a diagonal angle to bleed off speed,Columbia’s nose was pulled downward by the sudden loss of lift on that side and the shuttle entered an uncontrolled tumble and disintegrated.

* The space shuttle Columbia broke up because the area of heat shield on the left wing’s leading edge was damaged by falling foam at launch. The hot gas entering the hole and damaging the internal structure eventually caused most of the left wing to fall apart and tear off. Because it was banked at a diagonal angle to bleed off speed,Columbia’s nose was pulled downward by the sudden loss of lift on that side and the shuttle entered an uncontrolled tumble and disintegrated.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' has its stone dragon antagonist getting defeated when Shrek and Donkey trick it into flying through a small hole in a canyon, which reduces its wings to dust.

* Angel from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' has large wings: during the MutantMassacre storyline his wings are mutilated and later develop gangrene so they're amputated. For a while he uses artificial wings; later real wings grow back.

* The space shuttle Columbia broke up because the area of heat shield on the left wing’s leading edge was damaged by falling foam at launch. The hot gas entering the hole and damaging the internal structure eventually caused most of the left wing to disintegrate. Columbia’s nose was pulled downward by the sudden loss of lift on that side and the shuttle entered an uncontrolled tumble and disintegrated.

* [[BlindWeaponmaster Hawkeye Gough]]'s personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''' DLC ''Artorias of the Abyss'' has him pick his bow one last time and snipe down the Black Dragon Kalameet for its boss battle.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[VideoGame/WarThunder You've got a hole [[MemeticMutation in your right wing!]]]]"]]

* [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Buper Smash Bros. Brawl's]]'' story mode ''The Subspace Emissary'' has one of his wings damaged by the [[DiscOneFinalBoss Ancient Minister]]'s laser. It doesn't deter him too much, as he simply morphs them back into a cape to avoid damage; they're good as new the next time he uses them.

* In the penultimate episode of ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sakura attempts to use the Fly card to fight. Her opponent shoots one of the wings with a laser blast, setting it on fire.

* In ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Speed Zone]]'', this happens to a commuter plane the Van Sloans are using to get to Los Angeles before the other racers. Due to a very ill-conceived hijacking attempt (while [[WhatAnIdiot the plane was still preparing for takeoff]]), the plane ends up on the highway and shears its wings off after going under an overpass. The Van Sloans' solution: have the pilot "drive" the plane to L.A. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.

* Demonstrating the durability of the F-15, which shows that not even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1KBQ96_DI losing a wing]] would necessarily crash it. Kudos to the pilot too for his ImprobablePilotingSkills.

* Tragically occured to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907 Gol 1907]], which collided in midair with an Embraer Legacy jet, one of the Legacy's winglets slicing off a good portion of the airliner's left wing, causing it to tumble from the sky into the Amazon rainforest with no survivors. The Legacy managed to make it to a Brazilian airbase and landed safely.

* Yes, this is JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant territory. But it's worth adding the derivation of the phrase, as applied here to aircraft and given new meaning in a new age. The practice of clipping the wings of ''actual'' avian birds [[OlderThanFeudalism goes back a long time]]. It is done by cutting back or plucking flight pinions (feathers vital to flight) so that valuable caged/captive birds are restricted in how far they can fly, or are unable to fly at all. This was apparently also done in falconry to prevent hunting birds straying too far from their handler or getting thoughts of independence. There is a folk myth that if the ravens of the Tower of London take flight and desert the city, doom will befall Britain. this is taken seriously enough today for it to be [[RulesLawyer finessed]] by the raven population having had their wings clipped....