Official FlightLine OV-10 Bronco Discussion Thread

[AussieHoppy]

Coming in hot!

Fairly honkin' along!
What cell count is it running on?
All stock?

[walkerm45]

This has not been a smooth release....... The FW/MRC directions are sub par from other projects, but the price did not reflect the outcome.....I'm not disappointed about the product , only the journey to this point....

[sam51401]

I’m in need of some wing pylons for the desert storm load out. Any ideas? I have the keyed adapters from some spare a10 parts so got those parts covered. Plane is sanded to remove all vent tits and ready for a base coat of primer white.

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[albrat]

JUST ASSEMBLED MY FLIGHTLINE OV-10 AND I SEEM TO HAVE 2 THROTTLE MALE PLUGS. ONE YELLOW RED BLACK FROM BUNDLE AND ONE WHITE RED BLACK FROM ONE BATTERY PLUG. WHERE DO THEY GO? HELP !!

[TiredIronGRB]

Here's some 7 tube launchers I designed...scale to fit, I made them for helicopters .

[Nick7542]

Hi Guys. Im using a spektrum AR-610 receiver. wheres eveyone putting there receiver in the bronco. thanks

[Nick7542]

There has been some confusion on how to wire the flaps using the provided tri-harness. The two outer flaps come into the blue MCB box through the ribbon cables. You take the male to male out put from the blue MCB box and insert it into the tri-harness instead of going straight to your RX. You then take the two inboard flap connections and also insert them into the tri-harness before running it straight to your receiver. In short: take all three cords labeled FLAP, insert them into tri-harness, and go straight to the RX with it.

[A6A Hokie]

I'm confused on the Bronco wiring. Can you describe how you connected the wiring to the blue box?

[Dkurtzid]

Well it worked better than I even thought it would. The inside is hollow with a nice platform area ready to use. Lots of room! Cut through 1/2 inch of remaining foam firewall, and access to the blue box area is achieved. 4 1/4 inches Of usable room in addition to another 5 inches in the rear section itself.

Don

[jimmyp51d]

Just finished mine.

[Dkurtzid]

This shows the rear hatch on the full scale OV-10

[Dkurtzid]

Placing the receiver and their antenna(s) between the batteries and the wiring rats nest around the blue box is less than ideal from a signal reliability perspective. I’m thinking of making/cutting the center fuselage rear hatch and hollowing out the area behind the Blue box and wiring rats nest for the receiver and it’s rear facing antennas. Using the new rear hatch for access.

Don

[Grossman56]

Papa here.....first the instruction manual is a little lacking. Please watch the assembly video that Motion has on their sight. The problems, the manual says nothing about when or how to attack all leads to the blue box. Second, is the flap Y- harness provided, Again Motion has provided instructions on how to install. That common sense thing, did not help me. I must be dump as a stump. Whoever wrote this manual sucks! Sorry Motion, but the Boozers always say we will tell the true. Manual need to be re-written or addendum page added to solve problems of assembly of this plane.

Paging Mr Grossman, paging Mr Grossman............

[Mightywarhoover]

2nd flight with attachment.

[Mightywarhoover]

Here's the maiden. The manual is backwards on flap elevator mix..fixed it for that 2nd flight.

[Mightywarhoover]

Maidened the Bronco this morning without the rocket sponsons. I forgot to remove the paint before I glued. This is the 2nd flight. Ill post the maiden next.

https://youtu.be/DJxCdLcC8es

[Papa Boozer/Dots]

Papa here.....first the instruction manual is a little lacking. Please watch the assembly video that Motion has on their sight. The problems, the manual says nothing about when or how to attach all leads to the blue box. Second, is the flap Y- harness provided, Again Motion has provided instructions on how to install. That common sense thing, did not help me. I must be dump as a stump. Whoever wrote this manual sucks! Sorry Motion, but the Boozers always say we will tell the true. Manual need to be re-written or addendum page added to solve both problems of assembly of this plane. Also, take the throttle sticker of the BEC power lead. Great plane, only took five hours to complete. I am give out!

[RCGuy83]

Coming in hot!

[Mightywarhoover]

Maidened the OV-10A Bronco this morning. A few things. I didnt remove the paint before gluing on the rocket sponsons so they fell off taking it out of the car. The flap elevator mix in the book is backwards. On the 2nd flight, I reversed it and had a beautiful scale takeoff and landing. Very nice flying plane!!

https://youtu.be/TrOGRGfJhaE

[ronwc]

Received the OV-10 yesterday, and just got back from test flying, did three long flights total. I have to say that the plane went together quickly and was very well made, and looked great when finished. The wiring was somewhat confusing, but no big deal. They need to label the one wire throttle and the other power, instead of two throttle. And mention unplugging the .third wire on flaps and using the three way harness. Also mention that the elevator plugs directly into rx. There is really no need for a delay on retracts since no gear doors, so I'm probably going to plug the gear directly into rx also, again, no big deal. I did have a problem with one of the prop spinners breaking at the screw hold down before flying, so flew it with just the one spinner. I'm hoping Motion will help me out on this if I ask nicely.

I used two 3700mah 45C 4S which fit in easily, I have them moved most of the way forward which seemed to work out well. Take off and flying was easy enough, did not need a lot of trim. I'll have to go back and look at my tx, but I believe it was setup with 100% aileron, 85% elevator and rudder with 15% expo for initial flights. I did mix in 15% rudder with ailerons to get a little better roll rate. Also 10% down elevator with flaps. Plane is not overpowered by any means, but does fine on 3/4 to full throttle. Setup is obviously very efficient, and I believe you could easily get 10 to 15 minute flights.

I is really fun doing touch and goes with about 45 degrees of flaps, no bad habits of any kind that I could find. All in all, a very good looking plane, flys very solid. I had to laugh, barely got it in my SUV in one piece, but could not get it out without removing one wing, which is very easy by the way. Will wring it out more tomorrow and report back.