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My hangar neighbor flys as Air Boss in their Calfire Bronco, he says it's a great plane.


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Nice baggage capacity! (Zoom in and read the fine print.)

100 cases of beer :lol:

Also, a higher max landing weight (14,500 lbs) vs. max takeoff weight (14,426 lbs).

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Wonder how much they are asking...

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Price is 2.1 million. As far as I know this is the first flying OV10 to come onto the open market.

Not this year for me. I have to save a few more cereal box tops.

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Does it have a free castering nose gear?


Yes, you taxi it with differential throttle. There is a button that will engage nose wheel steering, but it is very sensitive and only used for sharp turns into parking, etc....

One way you can tell that someone did not get all the props off the feathering pins is to watch them taxi like a drunk at a Mardi Gras parade.


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I love it!

Thanks for sharing this neat airplane with us.

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How can you not love this bird!

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Having an engine fail and not able to feather the prop came close. My leg was sore for a few days.


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I flew 177 combat missions over Laos and Cambodia in the Bronco, and loved it from the first time I saw it. It was a very stable weapons platform and a great aerobatic machine. Looking at that video of the washboard runway brought back a memory from training: We were told that the airplane suffered no damage from those tests, but that one of the pilots wound up with a tear of his diaphragm that required surgery. For most of my tour out of Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai AFB I flew over the Ho Chi Minh trail in the daytime with nobody in the back seat (occasionally we had an intel officer back there for familiarization with the Trail and to qualify for combat pay since they were stationed in Thailand, or also occasionally, an Air Force or Navy fighter/attack pilot that wanted to get a closer/lower/slower view of the Trail), and the configuration was the four 30 cal machine guns with 2000 rounds, 4 rocket pods with 28 white phosphorus rockets, and a centerline 600 gal external fuel tank which gave us over 5 hours endurance. For about 6 weeks I flew out of Ubon RTAFB doing the combat evaluation of the Pave Nail Version of the Bronco. (Eval targets were in Cambodia) This one had the stick removed from the back seat to allow for a scope that was attached to a belly pod that replaced the 600 gal external tank. The pod could be rotated 360 deg horizontally and 180 deg vertically. It contained a starlight scope and boresighted laser. In addition a loran receiver and computer were added. Also there were 2 250gal aux tanks, one on a hardpoint of each wing. A navigator rode in the back and operated that gear. When we had a target, the back seater would lase it and the computer would calculate the target's position based on the aircraft position, the laser range, the plane's attitude, and the attitude of the pod. We would then call Hillsboro (daytime C130 ABCCC) or at night Moon Beam and they would launch an alert pad F4 from Ubon armed with a couple of paveway laser guided bombs. When the F4 checked in we would give him the loran time coordinates for the target to put into his computer and told him what attack heading to use. He would come in at 14000 feet, call us 1 minute from bomb release so we had time to get out of the way of the bomb path. When he called bomb away the back seater would start counting down from 32 seconds (bomb fall time), and when he got down to 15 seconds he would start lasing the target. Of the 41 bombs Tom Wilson, my back seater, and I guided during the eval, 40 were bullseyes (the one that missed was about 100 meters long and we assumed that it must have had a stuck guidance fin in the back). After the eval we took all 5 or 6 Pave Nail birds up to NKP and started flying them at night over the Trail. It was a great system, the bomb release happened about 5 miles from the target so they never heard the F4. My experience was that the F4s had to drop an average of 20 to 30 dumb bombs to destroy a single truck in a heavily defended area (the Air Force F100s and the Navy A4s and A7s did much better than that). The paveways more that paid for their cost difference in just the munitions cost not to mention the additional sorties. Plus the F4s were not subjected to the triple A fire.


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A pilot buddy I work with flew them in the USAF in the 80s I think. He has some fun stories and facts.

The one that sticks with me however is that he said they could load up 4 or 5 combat loaded Marines in the back, straddling some bench seat thing... and fly them somewhere. Crazy!

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