Interference No. 102,755
Crampton's testimony also fails to give dates (NR 31):
5. In view of the fact that Taxi
Brake Select® was a totally new concept to
the industry and no testing had actually
been performed on an aircraft yet, we felt
that in order to give this concept every
possible chance to succeed, the aircraft
should be equipped with four brake/wheel
landing gears so as not to create any
torsion problem or other significant
problem when only half of the brakes are
applied. In addition, because the control
system would have to deactivate the carbon
brakes and then reactivate them, we had to
know the specific braking characteristics
of those carbon brakes and how they could
be used with our control system.
Accordingly, the safest way to do that was
to seek an aircraft which had our control
system and our carbon brakes.
Moreover, when Crampton was asked to give dates for the
discussions described in the foregoing testimony, he was
unable to do so:
Q. Could you put paragraph five in a
time frame, you know, when these types of
conversations took place, or these kinds of
decisions were made?
A. Well, the concept came out in
1985, so it would have been after '85.
Q. Okay.
A. Specific dates, I can't give you
specific dates. [NR 394:6-13.]
There is also no documentary evidence dated prior to
Stimson's February 16, 1988, benefit date which implies that a
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