Black Box: Take a Sneak Peek Inside an Old Flight Data Recorder
The amazing aeronautical black box, able to withstand high temperatures and crash velocities. But how exactly does does it work? Watch and find out!
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Bill opens up a vintage "black box" from a Delta airlines jetliner. He describes how the box withstands high temperatures and crash velocities because it is made from Inconel: A superalloy steels that is used in furnaces and others extreme environments. The flight data recorder he shows is a Sundstrand FA-542 and was likely used on a DC-9 in the 1970s, although it could have been used as late as 1988 on a Boeing 727.
