Longshot

i’ve always wanted a bit of 60s civil aviation memorbelia for my garden, but don’t want to pay the earth for it!
about 3 years ago when the Cosford BA collectionwas scrapped, i contacted the company doing the scrapping and asked if i could get either a RR Conway intake or the jet pods from the rear from the 707-436, but the wanted about £500.
If anyone knows where i could get a similar type item ie RR Spey intake from a 1-11 etc i would be interested.
Just want to sit in my garden and have a bit of metal to remind me of package holidays when i was a child
thanks
Geoff

Hi Geoff, welcome to the forum; try Hanningfield metals (Essex) they had quite a bit of civil stuff.

Nip across to your local air museum with your hacksaw and “borrow a bit”!

ONLY JOKING!! LOL………

There is scrapyards that deal with aircraft in the uk think there is one in south yorkshire why not pop in see what they say?

If you are going to fit LongShot wing kits to weapons that already have their own guidance and control systems just to extend range I think it would make sense to build two versions of LongShot. One would be the standard SMART kit with guidance and controls, the other would be the DUMB kit without guidance and controls and a lower price tag 😉

This pic of a Paveway IV fitted with LongShot illustrates my point.

It looks like LongShot is actually controlled by conventional trailing edge flaps if the pics in this link are accurate http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/gnss2004unsw/OH,%20Sang%20Heon%20P134.pdf

Longshot is only the “wings part”, no “tail part” here.
My guess is that it is controlled by asymetric wing-swings of the swing-wing 😉

Sounds plausible 🙂

Longshot is only the “wings part”, no “tail part” here.
My guess is that it is controlled by asymetric wing-swings of the swing-wing 😉

Thanks eodda, it doesn’t make it very clear how it’s controlled but this press release mentions ”flight controlling wings” so I think the LongShot kit is an all in one system for dumb bomb guidance.

http://www.missilesandfirecontrol.com/our_news/pressreleases/03pressrelease/031103_LEIGH.htm

Privately held Leigh Aerosystems designs, tests and produces the LongShot™ Wing Kit that can be attached to existing “dumb” bombs to increase accuracy and range. The kit, which consists of a Global Positioning System-based guidance and targeting system and a pair of flight controlling wings, transforms existing weapons such as the 1,000-pound CBU-87 cluster bomb, the 1,000-pound MK-83 general purpose bomb, the 500-pound MK-82 general-purpose bomb, and laser guided bombs into targetable standoff munitions.

LONGSHOT

How is Longshot controlled? I don’t know for certain, but my guess is that the Longshot kit itself doesn’t have control surfaces as such. The Longsoht kit is just pair of folding wings and the one model I’ve seen didn’t have control surfaces. If you look at the candidate bomb bodies themselves, all of them have control enhancements available; the Mk 80 series has JDAM, SUU-64/65 Containers have the guided tail modification kits (CBU-103/105) and Paveway II has the EPW GPS guidance. My guess is that Longshot will merely enhance these capabilities by giving added glide range. In an ordinary unguided mode Longshot would also provide an extended glide range to a ballistic release of all of the candidiate bombs. One other aspect is that where electrically powered fuzes are used in the bombs, then they’d have to have extended life batteries fitted to cater for longer range/higher release altitude deliveries, otherwise the batteries would run down before the bombs hit the ground.

It’s a very clever system but I suspect it may be a little bulky for some platforms. It would have been a good upgrade to the UK’s 540lb and 1000lb bombs to improve the attack capability of the Sea Harrier 🙁

Does anyone know how the LongShot is controlled? I can’t see any obvious control surfaces :confused:

LongShot Torpedo thread – http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59211&highlight=LongShot

MM

She looks lovely and all ready to go! Have fun 🙂

Thanks to those offers of help

Many thanks!

MM

Hurricane notes

I have them on my PC – file size 1.64 mb – send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will zip them for you. 🙂 cheers – Allan