Lunar landing training vehicle

Clip showing the LLTV (aka the flying bedstead) in flight.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• LLTV
• lunar
• landing
• training
• vehicle
• Apollo

[youseetoo]

How does this machine works? In space, doesn't exist air, how a jet turbine works without air?

[ytmoog]

@youseetoo

This machine was never intended to fly in space it was for training and research.

The jet turbine was used to support 5/6th of the weight to give a similar feel to lunar gravity, the rest of the weight and manoeuvring was done using rocket engines.

[derciorj21]

I want one!

[Rob260259]

@elvisinpersonator

Try to find some credentialed people that agree with you. Ah.. you can't.

[ytmoog]

@elvisinpersonator

You will be happy to know that a recent lunar probe which mapped the moon to a 0.5 m resolution has shown the landing sites along with the landers, rovers and even shown the lunar regolith disturbed as the astronauts moved about.

Why did you think they had never gone exactly?

[elvisinpersonator]

@Rob260259

Mankind has never gone to the Moon. Though deep inside I'd love they had.

[Rob260259]

@elvisinpersonator

Yes, some of the astronauts did not like to fly it. But watch picture E14754. Halfway 1966 the LLRV performed more than 100 successful flights. Conspiracy theorists like to refer only to the crash of Armstrong as very typical outcome of an LLRV flight. Which is nonsense; the typical outcome was a safe landing.

[elvisinpersonator]

The Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV) actually proved fairly dangerous to fly, as three of the five were destroyed in crashes.

[youseetoo]

@ytmoog Thanks, I always made this question when had watched this video

[ytmoog]

@datzfast

The Harrier would not be a good analogue of the LM, this was as it used rocket engines for manouvering and lift. The jet was there to support most of the weight to give the feel of lunar gravity.

And it was to train the pilots.

Incidentally have you looked at the early 50's flying beadstead built by the brits. That was a cool flying machine and an early predecessor to the Harrier.