That facility has since been renamed the Armstrong Flight Research Center after Neil Armstrong, who also piloted — and famously crashed — the "Flying Bedstead" before he went to the moon.

The LLRV was a bizarre, four-legged flying contraption commonly known as the "Flying Bedstead." NASA used it to simulate moon landings and liftoffs on Earth to prepare for Apollo 11.

Whether the boxy “Flying Bedstead,” as some called the vehicle because of its design, would help Armstrong and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin make it to their destination was anyone’s guess.

In a week that has seen the first F-35Bs land vertically on the Queen Elizabeth carrier, The Engineer remembers a slightly less advanced VTOL aircraft in the shape of Rolls-Royce’s flying bedstead.

A Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) that was used to practice lunar landings for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and a Crew Transport Vehicle (CTV) used to move astronauts from space ...

Engineering students at the University of Nottingham have unveiled a working scaled replica of the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), better known as the “Flying Bedstead” Built and tested by ...

Two NASA artifacts that were used to help astronauts who were landing from space, albeit on two different worlds in two different eras, have themselves landed at a museum near where they were last ...