Heh, always room for a fun thread.I want one of these:
Kind of on the same topic, anyone ever see the episode of "Top Gear" where they built a shuttle out of a Reliant Robin? Was a pretty cool idea, even though it had a fiery finale. Do a YouTube search.
Quote from: padrat on 03/30/2011 11:05 pmKind of on the same topic, anyone ever see the episode of "Top Gear" where they built a shuttle out of a Reliant Robin? Was a pretty cool idea, even though it had a fiery finale. Do a YouTube search. Yeah, that one was great! I would have liked to see if the RC glide part would have worked.BTW. I think that is a photo of it in Orbiter's post a few back.
Guess they figured since it failed, might as well fail spectacularly!
You've got you appreciate the flame from the "engine."
Quote from: padrat on 03/30/2011 11:05 pmKind of on the same topic, anyone ever see the episode of "Top Gear" where they built a shuttle out of a Reliant Robin? Was a pretty cool idea, even though it had a fiery finale. Do a YouTube search. Monty Python could get us to Mars!
Quote from: ugordan on 03/31/2011 11:02 amQuote from: padrat on 03/31/2011 01:24 amGuess they figured since it failed, might as well fail spectacularly!I believe they actually rigged it from the start to "fail" and shoved explosives in it to make it more spectacular. Much easier than actually trying to land that thing and fail in a non-spectacular way.If they never intended to try to land successfully, which I had considered (because remote-control elevons would be expensive), I wonder if the thing they launched was actually a car and not just a styrofoam mockup. It's pretty clear in the video that the "shuttle" had no rockets firing, although they said in the narration that it would. The only rocket plumes come from the ET and SRBs. If that "shuttle" had been a real car, that stack would have been (a) very heavy to lift, and (b) very unbalanced on the shuttle side without rockets on the shuttle firing into the CG. Wouldn't it? Not that I'm a rocket scientist or anything. They showed a little infrastructure of the ET but kept the camera pretty well away from the Reliant Robin during construction.
Quote from: padrat on 03/31/2011 01:24 amGuess they figured since it failed, might as well fail spectacularly!I believe they actually rigged it from the start to "fail" and shoved explosives in it to make it more spectacular. Much easier than actually trying to land that thing and fail in a non-spectacular way.
Off topic, but origin of the F-1 comeback?http://www.southparkstudios.dk/clips/sp_vid_104277/
The fins on the back of the ET would stabalise the stack. I have seen plenty of smaller, model rocket, Shuttles that used the sam design.
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