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The Best Of Top Gear (Sunday 2nd January)

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Bush Tucker Man:
I've just watched this earlier tonight and one particular segment stuck in my mind.
It was the (at first) twin test between the 'big Aussie' Vauxhall Monaro & the Chrysler 300Hemi.

Whilst on the unmistakeable location of Pendine Sands, a C130(?) 'Hercules' lands & disgorges a S-Type R.

A nice brief sequence follows of the Jaguar racing the 'Hercules' down the beach :D

What kind of hoops did the BBC have to jump through to get permission to do that?
I assume that the landing was on the MOD controlled section of sand as a Range Control Tower could be seen in the background.


And Pendine Sands are now closed to us 'mere mortals' :cry:

Biggest shock of all.
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Clarkson likes a Vauxhall!!!
Not that I blame him, I'd love to have a good look at one, or a go in one

Andy.:
Out of all of them on looks I liked the Chrysler 300Hemi.

Tha Jag was impressive in the straight race, love to have a go  :D

Like seeing again also the sky divers attempt to land in the back of a travelling Merc  :D

strapping young lad:
not sure they do any ballistic testing on that range (they do that in aberporth and castlemartin)

however the story goes of rocket testing down a track.. not sure if this is true though

im sure BBC would be nice to the MOD in letting them borrow an aircraft and to land it on sand

hobbit:
Caught an amusing piece where they were playing conkers


With Caravans :shock:  :lol:  :wink:  :twisted:

Bush Tucker Man:
Don't think it's a 'live firing range', BUT; there is a rocket sled-railway at the Pendine range.
It's used for ballistics testing.
Basically it's a mile long stretch of railway (with about 1/16thInch horizontal deviation over the distance) it uses 18 rockets to accelerate it from 0-880mph in ONE second! (50G) & another four to stop it!

They loosely strap a bomb to it & catapult it into a big concrete block to examine the effects upon the casing (prior to rupture) & the blast/pressure wave.

The White Sands range in Utah(?) is even quicker, it has a rocket sled that has reached a speed of 6,120miles per hour :shock:  :shock:(think that track is 8miles long!)

How do I know this? It features in the excellent book about ThrustSSC, as they used the Pendine sled to test scale models at conditions of supersonic air-flow

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