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Aussie inventor of Black box dies at 85

  • 21-07-2010 6:50pm
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    Run_to_da_hills
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    There is probably no commercial plane in the world flying without one of these today. I wouldn't mind but these things are not black but actually red. :D

    David Warren, the Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder or black box has passed away at the age of 85 in his homeland. Warren came up with the idea of black box after his father died in a plane crash in 1934 and based his design on mini pocket recorders he had seen at a trade fair, AFP reported.

    "I put the two ideas together," he once said. "If a businessman had been using one of these in the plane and we could find it in the wreckage and we played it back, we'd say, 'We know what caused this.'“Any sounds that were relevant to what was going on would be recorded and you could take them from the wreckage."

    Warren's first black box design came out in 1956, with the ability to store a four hours of recordings. The Australian Department of Civil Aviation, however, told him that his "instrument has little immediate direct use in civil aviation."

    His invention was demonstrated to a British official in 1958, when it was dubbed a "black box," but it did not become mandatory in Australia until 10 years later".

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aussie-inventor-of-the-black-box-dies/story-e6frg6nf-1225895302475


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