KMP OV-10 Bronco (refurb job)
Hey Guys, I ran across a deal I just couldn't pass up. I found an old KMP Bronco that has been in the hanger for far to long. I got a great deal on her. She is full of goodies. She has 9 Hitec 5645s 1 JR-8711, a Duralight Power Box and lots of heavy duty servo extentions and what seems like a hundred parson's wire clips.
She had YS 110's on her but being the closest glow fuel stop is 45 minute away I decided not to get the 110s with the deal.
I plan on going electric on this one. As this will be my first electric I have a lot of learning to do.
I remember seeing this plane fly 4 or 5 years ago. As my memory came back to me I remembered it has a hard time getting off the ground. Now that she is sitting in my shop, I saw why. This Bronco is one of the first batch with fixed gear. The owner added Century Jet retracts. However they ended up being almost 7" to far back. The gear mounts are in the right place for the stock gear. however I believe the way the CJ gear is designed, it caused them to be to far back. So she wouldn't rotate very well for liftoff. I decided too cut the old gear mounts out (pic #1) and move them forward. I can't get them exactly where they need to be so the best I can do is 5" forward. I believe this will be ok.
Pic #2 is the mounts removed.
#3,4, & 5 is the left side just in for fitting.
#6 I need to trim the bottom for the gear to come down fully.
More to come,
Kelly
I have a few other ideas about which direction I want to go so more on that later.
Edit: I've added some pics to show what she looked like before I did any work. I don't know why I didn't take some more. (duh!)