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  2. Flight recorder - Wikipedia

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    These often-secret electronic devices were encased in non-reflective black boxes or housings. The earliest identified reference to "black boxes" occurs in a May 1945 Flight article, "Radar for Airlines", describing the application of wartime RAF radar and navigational aids to civilian aircraft: "The stowage of the 'black boxes' and, even more ...

  3. Explainer-How black boxes preserve vital clues to air disasters

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    Here are some details on black boxes and moves to improve them. WHAT ARE BLACK BOXES? ... Explainer-How black boxes preserve vital clues to air disasters. Tim Hepher. January 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM ...

  4. Airline service trolley - Wikipedia

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    The trolley is a rigid box form with castering wheels at each corner that can be braked to hold the trolley in position. Full and half size trollies are made. The front (both full and half size) and rear (full size only) have doors, and handles are provided at the top. There are currently several design families of trolley in use: [1] [2]

  5. List of unrecovered and unusable flight recorders - Wikipedia

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    In spite of this, and that, at least officially, none was found at the crash site, the possibility that black boxes existed has been speculated on. The head of the 1992 parliamentary inquiry criticized the Ecuadorian armed forces for cordoning off the area and removing debris without any judicial process or security protocols. [22] 1983-01-11 2885

  6. So-called black boxes carry the real answer to what ... - AOL

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    The data, which totals more than a thousand parameters, is swiftly saved electronically into the flight data recorder (FDR), one of the so-called black boxes that aviation safety investigators say ...

  7. ‘Black boxes’ from crashed South Korean plane stopped ...

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    Officials probing the country’s deadliest aviation accident in almost three decades had hoped information from the so-called black boxes would shed light on why Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from ...

  8. Aeronautical chart conventions (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The size of each sectional is designed to be "arm's width" when completely unfolded. The "northern" half of the section is on one side of the chart, and the "southern" on the reverse. The edges between north and south are designed with a calibrated overlap that permits plotting extensions of course lines from one side to the other, once the ...

  9. After close calls, FAA to consider requiring airplane black ...

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    After six recent close calls between commercial airliners, the Federal Aviation Administration says it will work to require all cockpit voice recorders (CVRs), often called black boxes, to capture ...