Turning the Robin Reliant into a SPACE SHUTTLE?!

December 18, 2008

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Turning the Robin Reliant into a SPACE SHUTTLE?! | Top Gear

Hammond and May discover if the Robin Reliant would make for a viable space shuttle. Getting it off the ground won’t be a problem, but can they get it to safely land again?

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Holy Crusader
September 26, 2020
Alternative title: making a V1 bomb out of a Robin reliant
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camieabz
September 26, 2020
I'm gonna be cynical and guess that someone clever worked out that the separated Robin would have been too floaty (i.e. uncontrollable), and a danger to those on the ground, but the info didn't come in until the kit was bought. Ergo, they opted to keep the Robin bolted to the fuel tank to provide a more controlled plummet, and of course an impressive explosion (a la Brainiacs).
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Azlak0507
September 27, 2020
All things considered, if you were a bunch of rocket enthusiasts having the BBC fund you to do this must have been a dream cos it’s incredibly cool. What a buzz seeing it work and then the SRB’s detaching.
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Steing Groburf
September 27, 2020
Most epic moment in European TV history.
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藍戰士Kit Kit Chan Isaac
September 30, 2020
4:53 Leaked footage of Ferrari testing the SF1000
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Josh 2.
October 1, 2020
Take notes, Elon Musk
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5Andysalive
October 1, 2020
Brake!
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Alex John
October 2, 2020
"well, its gonna come down like a lift with the cable cut" lol
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ProfessorData 1701D
October 2, 2020
0:13 but rockets aren’t light or cheap.
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Commando9
October 2, 2020
Why didn't it separate?
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Pc X
October 2, 2020
now i know whare elon got the idea from
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MITCHELL LANDREY
October 3, 2020
Probably the most ambitious project ever in Top gear/Grand Tour history
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The federal republic of Erusea
October 3, 2020
Tonight on bottom gear, Hammond and May throw a reliant robin into space.
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Attention
October 3, 2020
Build another and land it on someone proprety
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Xott
October 4, 2020
My friend when i told him they made this= They turned a what into a what !?
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Red
October 4, 2020
should have put a nokia 3310 at the place where the Robin Reliant would have crashed. it would have been the ultimate test…
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Mike A
October 4, 2020
Their genuine excitement and shock is great. You can't help but share the feeling with them.
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Rollo Maughfling
October 4, 2020
06:48 And on that night, May was definitely carried off by The Monsters . . .
Idiot.
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Alam Khan
October 6, 2020
I got disappointed after their failure.
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Ryan Tan
October 6, 2020
Welcome to, every Soviet spacecraft mission before 1959
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Super John
October 7, 2020
Me: damn how much budget did top gear have?
Top gear: yes
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lock smith
October 8, 2020
Jeremy Clarkson sabotaged it with a hammer
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Beez Kidz
October 8, 2020
hi Top Gear
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rsanjur
October 10, 2020
I never get tired of this. I have watched this like 5 times, like once a year
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CHARLES LIM
October 10, 2020
for the heights of heaven to the depths
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Lucas Gasparino
October 10, 2020
It's dead Jim xD
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Jan Stephen
October 10, 2020
See elon! putting a tesla in space isn't that impressive when even a reliant can do it…
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Yunkshione -101
October 11, 2020
This has got to be the best episode of Top Gear I've seen.
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Dat_Boi Animates
October 11, 2020
In these these trying times I would like to move to the nation of top gear they have a great government military police you can trust and prett much everythong else
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Pynancial
October 11, 2020
People complaining about taxpayers money wasted. Relax, they later sold this tech to North Korea.
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Fikri A
October 11, 2020
I remember begging my mum that I can stay past my bedtime so I can see the go to space
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The Professional Pleb
October 11, 2020
Still more successful than a North Korean missile test
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Dio Brando
October 12, 2020
Reliant got the new Challenger
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bratCyryl
October 12, 2020
British space program be like:
Oi mate! What if we lounched a bloody caah into obit with a barrel powered by fish & chips
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Varun Negi
October 12, 2020
The last explosion was actually fake if u didn't notice…
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Botond Sipos
October 12, 2020
Aaaah… the old school problem… You forgot to convert several units back to metric instead using imperials…
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Atticus Brown
October 12, 2020
I mean, it worked like two shuttles…
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Kevin Stone
October 13, 2020
Completely reusable. All the parts are still there… Technically.
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kippt
October 14, 2020
im honestly suprised it didnt just blow up
edit: nevermind
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Josh Temple-Cox
October 14, 2020
Think they filmed this at Spadeadam military base
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II II
October 14, 2020
Just glad it didn't go massively off course and obliterate a small village lol. Damn Robin Reliant mruise cissile!
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Michael Coldwater
October 15, 2020
Britain’s new intercontinental missile
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Novanance
October 15, 2020
It does look kinda fake at some parts but screw it, its funny lol
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Mamba 4L
October 15, 2020
Screw Tesla, we deserve this
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Channel Dad Bryon Lape
October 15, 2020
Top Gear: We launched a car
Elon Musk: Hold my beer
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lisa frady
October 16, 2020
Just like nasa shuttles
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funny fella
October 18, 2020
Where men cried.
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Anand Nair
October 18, 2020
Why didny they give it 2 front wheels?
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