Thank you for posting this. My father is the pilot. Col. John M. Dye, USMC (Ret.). He enlisted in the Marine Corps and was in the infantry. Got out, went to college, came back as an officer & became a test pilot. 3 of his 8 grandchildren got to see this video this morning. It was really neat for them to watch. My father is now 82 & still with us. I'm proud to be his son.
michaeld1974 , My father is retired United States Marine Corps SSgt Siegmund Odom Sr. He was an instructor and mechanic on the OV-10 Bronco. He retired from service in 1976. My dad loved that plane. He would set and talk about it for hours. My dad has since lost his mind and sense of reality. He is in a nursing home and when he has a moment of clarity, he still talks about the OV-10. In his sleep he talks and is still repairing the OV-10. Please tell your dad I am proud of his service for his county. My dad is trans paddy siggy.
michaeld1974, as a former active duty Marine Corps Marine Corps Officer and F4 Phantom Pilot in Vietnam I can Tell you that only another Naval Aviator would be crazy enough to do this! I know that I would have have done it. Of course I always was an adrenaline junkie !
michaeld1974, as a former active duty Marine Corps Marine Corps Officer and F4 Phantom Pilot in Vietnam I can Tell you that only another Naval Aviator would be crazy enough to do this! I know that I would have have done it. Of course I always was an adrenaline junkie !
michaeld1974, as a former active duty Marine Corps Marine Corps Officer and F4 Phantom Pilot in Vietnam I can Tell you that only another Naval Aviator would be crazy enough to do this! I know that I would have have done it. Of course I always was an adrenaline junkie!,
Throughout the 70's I saw the gator carriers (Gudalcanal and Iwo Jima class, and Tarawa) take a detachment of broncos aboard and take them on deployments (I am a Navy brat). Dad was a VS (aviation anti-submarine) guy and we were in North Island and Norfolk and I inquired how you could launch them without a cat or arresting gear to get them down. He took me out to North Island and a det was working up and they using the iceplant covered ground next to runway for takeoffs and a portable mirror landing system (trailer mounted). The guy running the LSO plot told me that with 15 knots across the deck to land the tires wouldn't even get warm, and that with that for launches they were usually with 25 feet to spare.
I was the plane capt on this OV-10 which was assigned to Flight Test Division at Pax River, MD. I came aboard for the Shakedown Cruise along with the factory reps from North American Rockwell. I can be seen on the wing ( in the brown jersey) while the plane is being refuled by one of the ship's crew. M. D. Lane AE-3
I rescued my Capt in VIETNAM when we took ground fire. He was hit and being a civilian pilot I took over brought Us back to Thailand. Lots of blood loss but he survived and I received a DFC. I love the Bronco.
Thanks for the posting ,I think military pilots are so skilled and well trained to be able to do this . Btw the Bronco should never have been taken out of service ,incredibly versatile aircraft imho.
Pretty impressive considering NO tailhook and NO catapult. Personally I think it could benefit from a cat launch with just a minor nose wheel mod. It appears to be doing fine without the tailhook - which is good considering that would be a much more complex mod. Then again too we have no idea what the wind speeds were across the deck either. Thanks for posting.
Maybe they could add these to the Marine's amphibious carriers? With the cargo area it could double as a light COD or light close support plane. Add a sensor suit and it could extend the offensive and defensive sensor coverage to over the horizon.
No other airplane to fill this role -as a possibly armed mixed/ medium cargo carrier with this plane's capabilities. Plenty of helos & the Greyhound and the OV-22, which can fit the same cargo role. No plane to fit the tactical medium STOL cargo role? No more Sherpas.
The USMC dumped Bronco despite it being safer than any helicopter. There was some controversy (I can no longer find the link to a Marine Bronco aviator describing how Bronco got axed, it was a very political decision) but there's zero need for it on carriers in any case. The Marine budget is secondary to Navy so there's no room for extras. In its original role in the constabulary missions/wars (everything since Korea) there's some use for Bronco which is why two were completely rebuilt and modified to support special ops in Syria, but the services only want jet fighters so that's what they get. It's not a deal breaker in combat, just a convenience, and because pilot lives are worth much more politically than infantry there is tremendous pressure to avoid light, low and slow missions. Of course helicopters are less capable at altitude and if Operation Red Wings had loitering fixed wing FAC/CAS to maintain comms while hitting Taliban with FFARs those SEALs might have all come back alive, but there is so much opposition to light fixed wing aircraft by the services they will never field squadrons of manned COIN/FAC/light CAS again. BTW contract ISR missions were flown over Iraq by the vastly inferior O-2! I worked on Broncos at Sembach. Wonderful aircraft to maintain but it's production line is long gone and will never be replicated though the sheet metal and structure would be easy to do.
I looked at the thumbnail and wondered why the tires were smoking so much...Then it hit me...Oh, no tailhook..Those are the brakes smoking! Wow! The pilot must have been absolutely standing on the pedals.
This plane air frame has a lot of possibility for 21 century since crude oil will be a problem. I would replace the two power-plant with highly efficient bio-fuel engines. The wing could be redesign to be fuel tanks versus the separate gas tanks. The target combat range would be 1000 miles with a ferry range of 2500.
TVVultch With a 20 - 25 knots headwind (the ship can give you this on a calm day) and reversible props this is no big deal. We deck launched T-28s in the training command to qualify students on a much smaller deck, though you needed a hook to land. Not sure about max load to do this with OV-10.
I was on the Teddy Roosevelt in Desert Storm, and we carried a squadron of Broncos to the Persian Gulf. They were craned aboard before we left Norfolk, but they took off loaded as we approached the Gulf. They were airborne long before they reached the waist, but I daresay we had a good bit more than 25 knots on the deck. Before this video, however, I did not know this aircraft could make an unarrested landing on the carrier.
Yes, I was on the USS America at the time. We and the Roosevelt left Norfolk together. We also had the OV-10's onboard. Your ship and ours were the only two carriers to have them onboard. We made some kind of "aviation history" by launching them during hostile times.
cpurickyahoo It can thx to reverse thrust. I think the length of a runway using reverse thrust was around 500ft (150m) But I would need to check the pilots manual to be sure.
Hardly. Small, light, and not armored. FAC aircraft, flown by very brave people marking targets for fast movers and sometimes providing ground support of last resort from way lower than they should have been.
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