Who likes OV-10 Bronco's?

[Spey_Phantom]

yesterday, i went to the 2nd annual "OV-10 Bronco Fan Day" at Wevelghem Airport, home of the OV-10 Bronco Demo Team.
during this small but pleasant event, i had the oportunity to talk to the team and had a chance to look arround outside and inside the OV-10B. on display was the teams newest aquasition, the OV-10B 99+18, an aircraft that spent the last 20 years in a museum and is currently being restored to flying condition, replacing another OV-10B, 99+32, witch was lost in a crash in Kemble/Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, last year.

all photo's from the fan day can be found on my website:

http://www.freewebs.com/nilssteyaert/apps/blog/entries/show/25038319-bronco-fan-day-2013

or alternative link (deu to problems with the photobucket hosting)

http://s307.photobucket.com/user/Nilssteyaert/library/Bronco%20Fan%20Day%202013?page=1

[pyro-manic]

Cool! Nice little selection of aircraft there. Do they all (or will they all) fly?

[Spey_Phantom]

Cool! Nice little selection of aircraft there. Do they all (or will they all) fly?

well, they are all airworthy, but the team solely flies the Bronco, the other aircraft there are from other private owners, just to give the event a little diversaty.
orriginally, the team plans to own 3 OV-10's and fly formations, another Bronco is curretnly under restoration in Duxford, but i dont know about the 3rd.

[PR19_Kit]

Super looking aircraft, with an amazing soundtrack. The engines run at 100% throttle the entire time as I recall, and they vary the power with the props! Didn't one of our US mebers here fly them in the past?

[kerick]

When I was assigned to the 22nd Tactical Air Support Squadron back in '87 they were still flying Broncos. As a forward air controller I was impressed with their manoverability. I recall one mission where the Bronco pilot flew up a canyon, pulled up at the last minute, did a 180 at the top of the climb and rolled out almost straight down on the target. The Army commander I was working with was suitably impressed. After that he also thought the Air Force was nuts.
Yes, I like Broncos.
A demo team would be quite a show.

[rickshaw]

I always thought the handles on the nose in various kits were oversize.  Obviously I was mistaken.  Always liked the Bronco ever since I saw them on the TV in the 1960s in use in Vietnam.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

LOVE the Bronco. Bought the add-on for FSX last year but for whatever reason it won't fly. Spoke to the (un)Helpdesk they were next to useless.

Anybody built an OV-10 'What If' ??, don't recall seeing any.

Ian

[Go4fun]

I love the Bronco! Put anti-armor missiles on it and you have a little brother for the A-10 Warthog!

[PR19_Kit]

LOVE the Bronco. Bought the add-on for FSX last year but for whatever reason it won't fly. Spoke to the (un)Helpdesk they were next to useless.

Anybody built an OV-10 'What If' ??, don't recall seeing any.

I've had its never built cargo derivative, the CV-10, in build for the last 3 years! 

See thread here :- http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,23381.0.html

I really MUST get on and do it, I had problems with finding a windshield but then one of our number donated a vast selection of them to me, either Gondor or kitbasher, I'm ashamed to say I can't remember who, so sorry. And I found a pack of Thermoform so I could make my own if I got my finger out. I feel a new bout of 'CV-10-ishness' coming on when I get home. 

[MiB]

Who likes OV-10 Bronco's?
Me! 

[Green Dragon]

Love me Bronco's!   Thanks for posting the pics Nils. 
Stash has three Academy A's + one D, one Airfix A + four D's, one Revell A and a Testors 1/48th OV-10A. One of the Airfix D's is wreck so the plan is for it to be made into something similar to PR19 Kits CV-10 using a wrecked Do28 fuselage.

Paul Harrison

[chrisonord]

LOVE the Bronco. Bought the add-on for FSX last year but for whatever reason it won't fly. Spoke to the (un)Helpdesk they were next to useless.

Anybody built an OV-10 'What If' ??, don't recall seeing any.

I've had its never built cargo derivative, the CV-10, in build for the last 3 years! 

See thread here :- http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,23381.0.html

I really MUST get on and do it, I had problems with finding a windshield but then one of our number donated a vast selection of them to me, either Gondor or kitbasher, I'm ashamed to say I can't remember who, so sorry. And I found a pack of Thermoform so I could make my own if I got my finger out. I feel a new bout of 'CV-10-ishness' coming on when I get home. 

Twas I Kit,hopefully one will be the key to you finishing the CV-10 as I would love to see what it is like in the flesh.
Chris

[sandiego89]

Well that is the first aviation group I have seen with cheerleaders and pom poms   

[ericr]

Anybody built an OV-10 'What If' ??, don't recall seeing any.

like float plane versions?

I have this :



and that :


(after the waterworld attraction)

[PR19_Kit]

LOVE the single float version, up there in bizarreness with the rest of the aeroplane!

Sorry I didn't credit you correctly with the 'windscreen collection' Chris. 

Now I really WILL have to get going on the 'CV Shed' when I get home.