Request TOPGEAR reliant robin SPACE SHUTTLE

[JAW1002]

if you can make addons, "i cant" this looks simple enough.

plz can someone remake the topgear space shuttle..

want more views and some info look here [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20"]YouTube- Top Gear - Reliant Robin space shuttle - Richard Hammond and James May - BBC[/nomedia]

 

[PhantomCruiser]

That was some good quality television entertainment right there. Those are my favorite show hosts below the Mythbusters.

Also, they knew it wouldn't separate, something about a shear pin that wouldn't be delivered on time. Made a nice boom eh?

 

[Hielor]

Also, they knew it wouldn't separate, something about a shear pin that wouldn't be delivered on time. Made a nice boom eh?

The explosion they showed wasn't actually caused by the shuttle--it was another clip that they spliced in.

 

[garyw]

True. it was done to make it all look more dramatic shame really because I wondered how well the robin reliant would glide.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

it was another clip that they spliced in.

Yeah, now that I think of it the colors were kind of funky. I'd like to see some of the raw footage.

 

[Moach]

if you wanna fly the robin, check this out: http://www.topgear.com/uk/games/rocket-robin

i love that game! - didn't know that thing was for real!


edit:

just finished watching it! OMG!!! AWESOOOOOOOOME!!!!!! that thing is REAL! :hail::hail::hail:
that was SO cool! specially when it blew up... "how are we gonna use it again?" ROFLMAO!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[markl316]

So, given an ejection seat and a parachute, how many of you would ride the Reliant Robin? I probably would, given the two things mentioned above.

 

[Hielor]

So, given an ejection seat and a parachute, how many of you would ride the Reliant Robin? I probably would, given the two things mentioned above.

Given that a person on board to operate a mechanical linkage would've probably succeeded in separating the Robin from the tank, I would totally do it.

 

[Arrowstar]

Given that a person on board to operate a mechanical linkage would've probably succeeded in separating the Robin from the tank, I would totally do it.

Not a chance it'd actually fly in any meaningful way without significantly larger wings more properly designed for this type of flight regime. I think flying on this would be a one way ticket out of this world, as it were.

 

[Hielor]

Not a chance it'd actually fly in any meaningful way without significantly larger wings more properly designed for this type of flight regime. I think flying on this would be a one way ticket out of this world, as it were.

Ejection seat and a parachute--Top Gear has already fitted cars with ejection seats in the past, so that seems perfectly doable to me.

 

[Urwumpe]

I wouldn't... I would have some doubts that this monstrosity would attempt snapping at me when I try to bail out.

 

[Notebook]

Having actualy sat in one, I can't recommend it. Only thing in its advantage was it was cheap, and I think you only needed a motor-cycle licence to drive it.

Personally I prefer the Bond Bug, rarity value...
http://www.shorey.net/Auto/Miscellaneous%20Pictures/1970%20Bond%20Bug.jpg

You don't see wing-mirrors like that anymore! Though, as it had a tendency to catch fire, you would see piles of melted glass-fibre and a chassis at the side of the road in the 1970's. Happy days.

N.

 

[Ghostrider]

Now imagine a rocket-powered Sinclair C5...

You only need a lightsaber to go with it.

 

[Notebook]

The c5 , British Motor Industry reached its peak when that hit the road.

N.

 

[Ghostrider]

The c5 , British Motor Industry reached its peak when that hit the road.

Yes, taking a look at the spectrum of electric vehicles around at the time, it was a quantum leap. :lol:

 

[Notebook]

Not to forget the great strides in gas-turbine powered saloons:
http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]One should also realise that everyone was learning at the time - it was a miracle if the engine ran at all; test-bed operators were unmarried volunteers![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A typical sequence from a notebook -[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1st test: satisfactory light-up, no oil pressure.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2nd test: no light-up.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3rd test: engine exploded.[/FONT]

Pioneering stuff.

N.

 

[Gerdih]

ahhaha I see it on the TV last month xD

 

[astrosammy]

I'm not very good at complex meshes and at coding the aerodynamics, so I can't do the Robin, but I can do the stack as a velcro rocket.

To me it looks that the Robin and the SRBs have no engines (maybe some smoke to make it look better, I see some coming out of the SRBs),
and that six of these are on the External Tank: http://www.contrailrockets.com/Products/prod05.htm

I'd also need some help with the numbers (from http://www.contrailrockets.com/top_gear_show_2007.htm, some converted in to metric units by me):

Fuel: 23 kg
Oxidizer: 64 kg
Peak Thrust: 75646 N
Average Thrust: 37823 N

Robin mass: 250 kg

Burn time roughly 40 seconds, booster sep at 23 seconds

Looking at the video, I'd say it reached an altitude of 1 km or so.
Final velocity didn't look that high, not much more than 100 m/s.

Can anyone give me information on the stack mass? IIRC it has a mass of 1500 kg.

For now I'll use an ISP of 2500 m/s, a thrust of 37823 N, a fuel mass of 87 kg and a empty mass of 1250 kg for the stack until someone gives me better numbers.

 

[Hielor]

I'm not very good at complex meshes and at coding the aerodynamics, so I can't do the Robin, but I can do the stack as a velcro rocket.

To me it looks that the Robin and the SRBs have no engines (maybe some smoke to make it look better, I see some coming out of the SRBs),
and that six of these are on the External Tank: http://www.contrailrockets.com/Products/prod05.htm

I'm pretty sure that the SRBs had engines in them, if you watch the whole video. The Robin itself did not have engines that were used during the ascent.

 

[Bloodworth]

Even if the explosion at the end was spliced in, freaking awesome video. Yeah, I'd give it a go if it had an ejection seat :headbang: