OV-10 Bronco

[PR19_Kit]

   Has anyone considered this novel idea? Carve the windshield & then stretch form or vac form it?

That's what I meant by 'blow-moulding' it.............

[PR19_Kit]

Chris,

How about a CH-46 screen?? or MH-53 or a chinook one?
I have spare ones of these, if any of them are of use to you let me know.

Good thinking, I'll have a look over the weekend and see if either would work. Thanks for the offer, I'll get back to you.

[kitnut617]

Chris,

How about a CH-46 screen?? or MH-53 or a chinook one?
I have spare ones of these, if any of them are of use to you let me know.

Good thinking, I'll have a look over the weekend and see if either would work. Thanks for the offer, I'll get back to you.

What about a V-22 Osprey windshield ? or even an S-3 Viking one

[Green Dragon]

Think all those suggested are far too big. S-3 might work with a lot of hacking, including taking a strip out of the centre and sticking the two halves back together. If I can get hold of another Bronco I think I might try using my Matchbox Do28 wreck for quickie lookalikee.

Paul Harrison

[Ed S]

I guess there is always the option of just filling it with putty, sanding it to shape and painting on a canopy.  That also saves having to do any interior detailing.

Ed

[famvburg]

       I've never heard of that term for vac forming. Blow molding would work I guess but be a tad expensive I think.

   Has anyone considered this novel idea? Carve the windshield & then stretch form or vac form it?

That's what I meant by 'blow-moulding' it.............

[kitnut617]

I've got this clear plastic sheet from Squadron, you heat it over a candle then quickly pull it over a mould, I think it's called 'smashing' or something like that.

[PR19_Kit]

I've got the same stuff Robert, works a treat. 

The 'blow moulding' business just shows how different the same language can be when separated by 3000 miles of ocean 

[kitnut617]

That's interesting Kit, I had thought you were refering to something else like this below.  Quite a few years ago I did a number of drafting jobs for an outfit which produced pop bottles, and the bottles are formed in two stages, the photo shows the first stage and these are then heated in a certain way and then quickly held inside a mould which then has a blast of compressed air blown in through the neck. This forms the final shape of the bottle --- blow moulded.
The green blank in the pic is for a 7-UP bottle, the other two were for two different sizes of Coke bottles

[famvburg]

     This pic is interesting. Back at Halloween, a firend gave me some 'test tubes' of "Gummy Eyeballs". The test tubes have a screw-top like a soda bottle & a rim just below the threads. The cap is the same size & thread as a soda bottle's. Just like the blanks in this pic! I kept the empties for who-knows-what? purposes. Now I wonder if these test tubes are just soda bottles in their infancy!

That's interesting Kit, I had thought you were refering to something else like this below.  Quite a few years ago I did a number of drafting jobs for an outfit which produced pop bottles, and the bottles are formed in two stages, the photo shows the first stage and these are then heated in a certain way and then quickly held inside a mould which then has a blast of compressed air blown in through the neck. This forms the final shape of the bottle --- blow moulded.
The green blank in the pic is for a 7-UP bottle, the other two were for two different sizes of Coke bottles

[Jschmus]

One of the mods on the OV-10 Bronco Yahoo mailing list posted this link.  It's mostly photos of OV-10s, with some of T-6s and O-2s thrown in.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33110

[Stargazer]

Great close-ups and some unusual angles. Thanks!

[Green Dragon]

On the six the pic down are those seismic sensors on the small MER's? Also what is being loaded on the centreline in the tenth pic, looks like a boxy styled .50 cal gun pod of some kind? Don't remember seeing anything like that before.

Paul Harrison

[Jschmus]

On the six the pic down are those seismic sensors on the small MER's? Also what is being loaded on the centreline in the tenth pic, looks like a boxy styled .50 cal gun pod of some kind? Don't remember seeing anything like that before.

Paul Harrison

Yep, those look like seismic sensors.  They were used for tracking truck movement.  The racks look like dispensers for practice bombs.  The ammo in that tenth pic looks more like 20mm.  I don't recognize the pod, but I seem to remember that the OV-10 could take the Mk.4 cannon pod.

[norseman]

A friend of mine designed a Bronco variant for a stillborn PC game a few years ago, covered a lot of the ideas mentioned here, had 2 x 1,600hp engines, 2 x 0.50 cals in slightly enlarged sponsons in each side (they were to be the lightweight newer designed Singaporean 50's), 2 x 20mm 3 barrel light weight ultra compact guns based on the Comanches XM301, one on the side of the nose for direct fire and the other in a lightweight aerodynamic belly turret. It looked the business and in the simulation worked very well indeed, the XM301 is a much cleaner smaller weapon than the Cobra's 20mm gun and looked a better fit on the Bronco. I am sure I have an old image of it somewhere??