The explosion was a British Army 1000lb bomb being tested later on the same military firing range (Otturburn) and very cleverly cut in to time with the impact.
The motors used (a mix of AP/AL/HTPB solids and AL/HTPB/Nox hybrids) can't explode on impact.... they could 'burst' but you'd barely notice.
The actual 'squish' as it just crumpled when it hit a soft field was obviously not enough for them... they obviously wanted more bang.
As for Top Gear's budget.... a friend in the TV industry and I had a chat about it the other day and we recon somewhere around £0.6m to £0.8m per episode for this series. Possibly a little more.
I hasten to add, I didn't have anything to do with the project, just have a little inside info on it from friends who were.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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The explosion wasn't real.
The explosion was a British Army 1000lb bomb being tested later on the same military firing range (Otturburn) and very cleverly cut in to time with the impact.
The motors used (a mix of AP/AL/HTPB solids and AL/HTPB/Nox hybrids) can't explode on impact.... they could 'burst' but you'd barely notice.
The actual 'squish' as it just crumpled when it hit a soft field was obviously not enough for them... they obviously wanted more bang.
As for Top Gear's budget.... a friend in the TV industry and I had a chat about it the other day and we recon somewhere around £0.6m to £0.8m per episode for this series. Possibly a little more.
I hasten to add, I didn't have anything to do with the project, just have a little inside info on it from friends who were.
Ben
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