Rockwell OV-10 Bronco.
Registration: F-AZKM.
The Rockwell OV-10 Bronco was created due to the need within US armed forces for a lightly armed reconnaissance aircraft. The aircraft was designed as a twin-engine high-decker with room for five people, including crew.
The two crew members sat back to back in the cockpit, a cockpit that offered good visibility. In the high-mounted wings were 2 turboprop engines, whose casings extended into the double tail booms characteristic of this aircraft.
The aircraft could carry quite a lot of armament for close air support in the form of light bombs, rocket launchers and cannons. Standard armament consisted of 4x Mauser 7.62mm machine guns mounted on hardpoints under the fuselage.
This photo was taken on 19 May 2024 during the La Ferté-Alais Airshow.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…