Timeline for Why are FDR's called "black boxes" when they are actually orange?
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 17:41 | vote | accept | yuritsuki | ||
| Feb 14, 2016 at 11:50 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | I think this is the correct answer, but the point is not that the internal workings are not of interest, but that apart from the actual data inputs they are totally isolated and separate from the rest of the system so that the do not fail when the rest of the system fails. That lack of dependencies is what makes the internals "not of interest" both for FDR and for "black boxes" in general. And what allows black boxes to serve their function after the rest of the plane has broken to small pieces scattered over several square miles of ocean. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 7:45 | comment | added | ToUsIf | Another possible reason can be"Just like black hole which contains all light this is black box which contain all the necessary flight data". This flight reveal every important information of flight as if whoever decodes it can identify flight trajectory, surface position, engine rpm, warnings etc. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 21:29 | comment | added | David Richerby | "Nature didn't make many things orange, besides oranges." Well, apart from various other fruit, lots of flowers, various butterflies, birds, autumn leaves, the sunset, ... (Sunrise, too, I hear but I'm rarely awake then.) | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 21:08 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 21:25 | comment | added | yuritsuki | So black doesn't necessarily connotate color but actually conveys the condition of the box? | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 21:11 | comment | added | Dan Pichelman | +1 for the update. I suspect that may be the real answer - in electronics it's a common term and from an avionics point of view this is a "don't care" box. The avionics will work fine without it. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:23 | history | edited | Farhan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:13 | history | answered | Farhan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |