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Human Cannonball

We thought it might be nice to get series nine of Scrapheap off to a flying start… literally! Our teams were given just 10 hours to build contraptions capable of firing human cannonballs as far as possible into a disused quarry. Of course health and safety concerns persuaded us to use life size mannequins instead of human beings, but Rob and Lisa forget to mention this to the teams at the start of the day!

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