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... that. '''Bigham:''' A little background. I’ll give you some reasons for it. Basically, the LLTV was used to train the astronauts in the control characteristics (flying qualities) of the Lunar ... difficult negotiations. We were under tight cost constraints. We let the contract for the three LLTVs to Bell Aerosystems, and the LLRV was delivered by FRC to Ellington. Neil Armstrong had ... . '''Interviewer:''' So there was no celebration for you. '''Bigham:''' No, no. But by then, the LLTV Program had been turned over to the Aircraft Operations people. They had their hands full ...

... things? '''Butler:''' Oh, absolutely, absolutely. '''Grimm:''' Okay. Because I could jump to major things like LLTV or the Gemini rendezvous or the first Shuttle payload that we developed in my division ... were all part-task in one way or another, just like the LLTV. We had a simulator for the LLTV in Building 4, a little fixed base, so that the crews could ... spent about ten hours in that simulator before they ever got out to fly the LLTV. The LLTV simulator was a simulator’s simulator’s simulator. Laughter So that’s what we ...

... you make the change from this crew integration job to the LLTV Program? '''Haines:''' The guy that was running the LLTV wanted to get out of it, get back to the mainstream ... one man per mission. While we did not let LM pilots fly the LLTV, all backup commanders did receive LLTV training. '''Rusnak:''' That was then sort of a maintenance and upkeep issue ... :''' You had mentioned that there was a third crash, and you were left with one LLTV for the rest of the training. What happened in that third instance? '''Haines:''' Lost electrical ...

... LRL thing. Get another call, this time from Kraft, saying the lunar landing training vehicle, LLTV, has run into problems. That was run out of Deke Donald K. Slayton's operation ... change out the tape. I'm sorry. Before we stopped, you were talking about the LLTVs had crashed and Bob Gilruth had put you on the project. '''Armitage:''' Yes. So I ... my favorite astronaut. Great guy. “Okay, Deke, I'm here.” Well, I take over the LLTV program, because they've got to get through the problem that they've got, find ...

... or anything like that, no, we did not. I take that back. We had an LLTV Lunar Landing Training Vehicle simulator that we provided, sure enough, under Wayne K. Williams. We ... and dynamics . It was a kind of a minimum simulation from the standpoint of the LLTV instrumentation , but we had to simulate the lunar rocket motor that took up five-sixths ... into a lunar mode. So we simulated that, the operation and dynamic environment of the LLTV in our training vehicle simulator . I think it was useful. There was a certain number ...

... Apollo 11 mission, to be launched July 16. Armstrong told newsmen Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV did "excellent job in simulating the landing characteristics of the lunar module." Flights were first for Armstrong since crash of second Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV Dec. 8, 1968. First Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV , piloted by Armstrong, had crashed May 6, 1968. ''(UPI, NYT, 6 ...

... . Adverse region of flight was entered because the aerodynamic limitations of Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV were not completely understood, wind conditions were insufficiently accounted for, and displays in Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV and support van were inadequate for conditions. Board made 11 recommendations-including wind-tunnel tests ...

... the machines that we lost. In my position, they were very traumatic events. With the LLTV Lunar Landing Training Vehicle , of course, we supported Jim James A. Lovell Jr. and John ... . in 1970 for the Apollo 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 flights, but we lost LLTV Number 2 end of January '71. An electrical problem. The pilot, Stu Present, ejected okay ... 20, '72, at Matagorda Island with a back-seater named Mark Heath, who was an LLTV flight director, actually, and they were just starting to—we were practicing, trying to figure ...

... -month, $5.9-million fixed-price contract to provide three Lunar Landing Training Vehicle s (LLTV) for astronauts to practice simulated lunar landings. Capable of simulating 1/6 gravity environment of the moon, LLTV would be towed to about 4,000-ft altitude and released; pilot could damp out ...

NASA's Lunar Landing Training Vehicle ( Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV ), piloted by NASA test pilot Harold E. Ream, successfully completed six-minute flight at Ellington AFB. Lunar Landing Training Vehicle LLTV flights had been suspended since Dec. 8, 1968, crash. ''(AP, B Sun, 4/8/69 ...

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