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Old 29th Oct 2006, 02:28
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Brian Abraham
 
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talked about his real time simulator for the LLM as being a Bell 47G5?
When at Ellyson Field (Pensacola - US Navy helo training) in 1967 and 68 the astronauts used to come to work out on the TH13M aka Bell 47. The word was that they used to practice hovering autos from some unholy height to simulate the LLM landing. For the life of me I cant recall who the individual astronauts were that we came across as at the time they didnt quite have the cachet of glamor that they later gained. We were more imbued with the tales of daring do of our instructors who had seen Vietnam service. Maybe Eagle86 can recall names.
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