posted 01-05-2018 06:57 AM               

• A copy of the incident investigation report into Armstrong's crash in the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV).

• Location of any equipment or components from his crashed LLRV.

posted 01-09-2018 08:02 AM               

• NASA SP-2004-4535: The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle may offer some clues. Pages 142-145 cover the crash of LLRV No. 1.

• According to a NASA fact sheet, LLRV No. 2 was returned to Dryden Flight Research Center, now NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC), at Edwards AFB, CA. where it was placed on display.

• According to a NASA Technology Facts, LLTV B3, the last of the three training vehicles built, is on public display at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.

• This Neil Armstrong LLRV presentation may be of interest, as may this NASA Gallery.

• This photo is of particular interest as it shows the LLRV being moved for temporary display. It may still be at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards — they are probably the best people to ask.

• Finally this NASA link on System Failure Case Studies is interesting too.

• Close-up images of the JSC-displayed LLTV NASA 952. Also on display, and featured in the JSC image sequence above, is the rotational hand controller recovered from the 8 December 1968 crash of LLTV No. 1.

• NASA correspondence related to the investigation into the crash of LLTV 1.

posted 01-09-2018 03:18 PM               

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Originally posted by YankeeClipper:
It may still be at the Air Force Flight Test Museum[ at Edwards — they are probably the best people to ask.

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I was told by museum staff that in a few years time, thanks in part to a recent large donation, the museum would be relocated outside of the main gate. This is a welcome change, allowing anyone to see all the amazing artifacts without having to obtain base clearance.

posted 01-12-2018 11:11 AM               

Partially restored by a movie company in the late 1990s, one of the two original Lunar Landing Research Vehicles remains on limited display today at NASA Dryden.

posted 01-17-2018 11:00 PM               

• 2006 Dr. Christian Gelzer Dryden FRC The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle; Prelude to the Arrival at Tranquility Base.

• 1966 NASA-CR-71253 Study of modification of a lunar landing research vehicle to a lunar landing training vehicle.

• 1965 US-PATENT-3,191,316 Lunar landing flight research vehicle patent.

  1968 NASA-TM-X-61164 Studies of piloting problems of one-man flying units operated in simulated lunar gravity. This contains some unique design photos and the following interesting statement:

  One of the research vehicles is the LLRV (fig. 13) which had been flown originally as a research vehicle at the Flight Research Center (ref. 16) and was more recently flown as a training vehicle at MSC until being completely demolished in the recent crash.

• 1968 NASA-TN-D-4131 Lunar module pilot control considerations.

posted 01-18-2018 01:28 AM               

• Presentation - Part 1
  
• Presentation - Part 2

posted 01-18-2018 01:53 AM               

The presence of both fuels created a volatile combination. Later, after the crashes of LLRV No. 1 and LLTV No. 1, Deke Slayton–director of flight crew operations at the MSC–changed the policy regarding the role of firemen and other personnel. His comments are revealing:

Hydrogen peroxide [H2O2] and JP-4 [jet fuel] make an extremely hazardous combination that has proven to be not only inflammable and self-igniting, but also shock sensitive, i.e., it will explode, releasing energy equivalent of dynamite. We have had two incidents where just a few ounces of 90 percent H2O2 was sprayed on a JP-4-soaked rag during a demonstration and it detonated of its own accord, rattling nearby windows. Besides the H2O2/JP-4 hazard, the vehicle has 4000 psi He [helium] pressure and lesser pressures that are just as dangerous as explosives when their containers have been subjected to structural and heat damage.

posted 01-18-2018 02:39 AM               

• LLTV No. 1 Accident Investigation Board Report Capt. Wally Schirra's copy.
  
• LLTV No. 1 Accident Investigation Correspondence