Official Nexa OV-10 Bronco 1800mm ARF Discussion Thread

[walkerm45]

What has the all up weight been running, for most planes?

[fjkelley@cox.net]

Took my OV out today. About 2 minutes into the flight, my canopy/hatch blew off and went through the prop, shreding it. I ended up crash landing in the desert, breaking one of the main gear retract units. Anyone have a Xwave RM400-90 Electronic Retract for sale?? Motion RC is out of stock...

Old Dawg

[sam51401]

I must say that your "string of good luck" has increased in length. Way to go and congrats on placing with the plane as you did. You are correct in with competing with a new plane but it will progress better with time. Keep that string growing and change from luck to experience.

[TwistedGrin]

Chose the OV-10 Bronco to compete in the 2020 Wes Blair Texas Scale Masters Championship, winds were a bit choppy and I made a rookie mistake on a take off allowing the wind to push me off straight line center runway on take off.....cost me 1st place in my category. The aircraft presents very well in flight and is a formidable and unique profile in the air.....I would have rather practiced with it more as only on Friday evening flew it in my low maneuver routine.....best to fly an aircraft you are very familiar with

TwistedGrin

[TwistedGrin]

Gonna have to start working on that coordinated FAC action.....but I think maybe perhaps executed by a pilot with true skills instead of one with a short string of good luck - LOL

TwistedGrin

[sam51401]

Good to hear on your success. Now have you figured out to to fly both birds at the same time for some coordinated FAC action? If anyone has the F4 and A4 and maybe the new F100, that would be some awesome video for sure.

[TwistedGrin]

I am very happy to report the Cessna 336 02 Skymaster's gremlins have been evicted from this aircraft...thanks to Ed Couch and Royce Lummens for helping me set up some Aileron reflex in addition to the stabilizer I deployed. I was very anxious at flying this bird's previous flights take off's were nothing short of an averted disaster. With the two changes the aircraft takes off very smooth and predictable now on half flap and the flight performance is now very predictable and much smoother. The Bronco suffered a skipped tooth on the right rudder servo arm which really spooked me during that fight....field repairs made and re-tuning the rig were completed in subsequent flights....tamed that bird down as well thanks to Eric Bowman who stood by me to help trim as needed on both the shake down flights. Six flights and the Bronco and Four flights on the Skymaster 02.......ready for many more flights on these birds.

TwistedGrin

[TwistedGrin]

Got in two flights before powerful rain storms smacked the field today.....this was my fourth flight on the bird...but the first with Counter Rotating Props. Much better flier with counter rotating props. I did not think it would matter much but it does. Before changing the bird was prone to fishtailing in the turns and would turn easily one way but not near as responsive in the other direction. Today it was a dream to fly with Counter rotating props....figure eights, aileron rolls right and left with the same effort of control. Much better experience.

TwistedGrin

[Rosytime]

I flew my OV-10 this past weekend. Everybody liked it as usual and it flew great. The funny thing is after I landed and went to disconnect the lipos, I realized I had just did that whole fight on one battery. I have a parallel system where both batteries feed both ECSs so there is no difference in in voltage to each motor. I had forgotten to put the two battery to one adapter on. I fly with with two 5000mah lipos that feed two E-Flite 32s with 3 bladed props. My timer is set for 4 1/2 minutes and I landed as the timer was going off. After checking the battery it still had 10% in it. Thank goodness I didn't have to go around a few times. I have to learn to leave the adapter in the plane so both batteries get hooked up.
A side note- I met a flyer who actually flew the Bronco in Viet Nam. He has his done up in Air Force gray along with his tail numbers. He said he loved flying it.

[Gilatrout]

Finally able to get back to work on my Cal Fire repaint. Along the way, I was finally able to get a proper Cal Fire crew printed and painted. The figures are a mash up of several models on Thingiverse and CGTrader. Getting them right took a lot of fussing around.

The badges/patches are images I found online and printed on white decal paper and cut out on my cricut vinyl cutter. A little advice - if you use a cricut to print and cut decals, cover the reference lines on the print out with matte scotch tape. The sensor doesn't care for glossy paper.

I'm pretty happy at the way it turned out.

[MikeT]

Is the construction manual for this model available somewhere online? I can't find it.

Just ordered the model and the retracts from MotionRC. Just want to have a guide as I collect the other components I will need.

TIA.

Under the support tab, https://www.motionrc.com/products/ne...rf#support-tab




Mike

[dgfinch]

Is the construction manual for this model available somewhere online? I can't find it.

Just ordered the model and the retracts from MotionRC. Just want to have a guide as I collect the other components I will need.

TIA.

[dgfinch]

Found the thread on RCGroups. Headed over there for advice.

[bacu8888]

Well....i am still working on my Bronco if that will maybe help getting things going again

[Evan D]

The camo one is my friend Vic's. Mine is the blue grey. Mine has a totally different power system that's pulling 2 1/2 times the watts as stock plus being more efficient. Pulled the stock wiring out and ran servos to a 12ch receiver so I have crow, throttle differential, etc... We both have pan and tilt FPV. His is much more scale with a lot of small extra 3dp bits. We had different visions...

[sam51401]

Yep! DS camo with disco ball.
I noticed that when i went back and looked that they are FL. Two diff power systems so you must favor one over the other....?

[Evan D]

91 in two tone tan?

BTW both in my pic are FL birds.

[sam51401]

I’ll be right there with you mike as mine are closer to maiden, both Broncos . Nexus is VMO 2 pre DS and the FL is 91’ DS VMO 2.

[MikeT]

Not everyone...

OK 99%. I also own both.

Mike

[Evan D]

Not everyone...