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What happened to the dorsal avionics hump?View attachment 26152
VC-13 A-4E's tanking from a KA-3 during CAG-20 annual ACDUTRA at Fallon, circa '87-'88.
View attachment 26141Reviving the thread per suggestion by Zip. OV-10G+ at Pax firing Zuni during Combat Dragon.
I think that was an A-4F configuration.What happened to the dorsal avionics hump?
My old man was a maintainer in a couple of Marine OV-10 Squadrons. He was able to ride in the back seat during a Zuni shoot and said that it felt like the plane stopped in mid air. Makes sense now, seeing how huge they are compared to the plane. Jesus!
What happened to the dorsal avionics hump?
Had a flight school classmate that had done time as a Marine Recon type and he did a couple drops out of OV-10's with 4 of his closest friends. They would stuff themselves in the cargo section in the back while the guy at the very back sat with his legs dangling out of the open back-end of the fuselage. He claimed the pilots would sometimes put the plane in a climb to literately drop them out the back. This classy vintage video actually shows it at 8+00 mins.
F4U from the Kalamazoo Air Zoo with a VA-86 A-7E and a VA-45 TA-4J in formation between Ft. Wayne, IN and Kalamazoo, MI, taken from an Air Zoo T-28. More about this later when I have time.
Did it myself back in my Corps days. You loaded up, your static line was hooked to the right. Often an antenna bag was dropped with the team. The OV-10 would fly nap-of-the-earth and at target pop up and dump the team. It was called LALO (low altitude, low opening). I have never done an OV-10 exit that wasn’t on a static line mostly because it would take the two guys furthest back too long to drag their butts to exit the aircraft for an effective drop. I was never trained for HALO but I don’t think the Bronco was used for that mission.Had a flight school classmate that had done time as a Marine Recon type and he did a couple drops out of OV-10's with 4 of his closest friends. They would stuff themselves in the cargo section in the back while the guy at the very back sat with his legs dangling out of the open back-end of the fuselage. He claimed the pilots would sometimes put the plane in a climb to literately drop them out the back. This classy vintage video actually shows it at 8+00 mins.
Demoed that for us at OCS. Wild!Did it myself back in my Corps days. You loaded up, your static line was hooked to the right. Often an antenna bag was dropped with the team. The OV-10 would fly nap-of-the-earth and at target pop up and dump the team. It was called LALO (low altitude, low opening). I have never done an OV-10 exit that wasn’t on a static line mostly because it would take the two guys furthest back too long to drag their butts to exit the aircraft for an effective drop. I was never trained for HALO but I don’t think the Bronco was used for that mission.
Sounds cool but I’m not sold on the idea of going to Fort Wayne...The mil side of FWA is an A-10 base these days but the field itself has a small variety of airplanes up on sticks that you can see on the drive to the passenger terminal. The terminal has a really great, but compact (maybe 400 sq.ft. of floorspace at the most), and free museum on the upper level. There's enough on display that if you look at everything in detail and read truly everything then you could probably spend an hour or two in there. There's also a Curtis biplane hanging right where you first clear security.