ABSTRACT
The goodrich company is what business magazines like to refer to as "a major American corporation. Contracts for aircraft wheels and brakes often run into millions of dollars, and ordinarily a contract with a total value of less than $70,000, though welcome, would not create any special stir of joy in the hearts of Goodrich sales personnel. Searle Lawson was well aware that much work had to be done before the A7D brake could go into production, and he knew that Ling-Temco-Vought had set the last two weeks in June 1968 as the starting dates for flight tests. During a normal aircraft landing the temperatures inside the brake may reach 1,000 degrees, and occasionally a bit higher. Qualification reports are an accumulation of all the data and test logs compiled during the qualification tests and are documentary proof that a brake has met all the requirements established by the military specifications and is therefore presumed safe for flight testing.
