Transcript of Hearing 12/12/97 - TWA Flight 800 Investigation

1our own,piggy-backing onto that experience using the12932345flight test and all the instrumentation.We used that flight test data to build acomputer model. In fact, we have now two computermodels that we can use first of all to cross check how6well the models are behaving,but also to study all of78these things. So,those.we are very actively looking at9If you look back in the response to the FAA10back in August,one of the things we did say was the11insulation concept would look very promising, and we12were continuing to work on them.We are still doing131415161718that work. We use the flight test data. We are nowlooking at concepts of slot cooling, as I think Idescribed briefly on Monday.We are also doing laboratory testing ofullage sweeping. That is a very simple concept. It isvery appealing in terms of trying to blow air into the19tank.The issue really is what do you do with the20212223light ends that get blown overboard, or is there someway of collecting them somehow, and that is the nextstep we want to go to.The other point that I think is very24important is we are designing ––we are reviewing our25designs on the bonding and grounding issues as we tryCAPITAL HILL REPORTING, INC.(202) 466-9500