Flying Bedstead

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The Flying Bedstead was a nickname given to two different experimental vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, both receiving the nickname because each comprised a Skeleton platform raised on four legs that resembled a bed (furniture).

These aircraft were the Rolls-Royce Plc Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), and the later LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle) developed as part of the Apollo program. Both aircraft relied on Lift jet (engine thrust directed downwards) rather than aerofoil surfaces, such as wings or Helicopter rotors, as a means of providing Lift (force).

The first Flying Bedstead was the United Kingdom Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig which flew in 1953 at Hucknall aerodrome, Nottinghamshire, England, which was developed to research the use of direct-lift through the use of engine power alone, along with the associated methods of controlling the aircraft, with a view to use in further VTOL aircraft such as the later Hawker P.1127 and Short SC.1.

A pub close to the aerodrome in Hucknall is named The Flying Bedstead and its pub sign is a painting of the Thrust Measuring Rig.

The second aircraft known as the Flying Bedstead was the LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle) developed by the United States in the 1960s as part of the Apollo program and intended for studying piloting techniques for use by the astronauts destined for the moon landings in the Apollo Lunar Module. During one of his flights in an LLRV the North American X-15 pilot and future Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong was nearly killed when the Flying Bedstead went out of control and crashed.

See also

Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig
LLRV

Flying Bedstead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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