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by raylrodr on February 10th, 2009

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On a commercial aircraft...why do they call it the "Black Box" when it's actually orange?

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on February 11th, 2009

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    The term "Black Box" is used in engineering to describe a unit whose internal function you don't need know about. Anything that has inputs and outputs but whose internal function is, for the discussion in hand, is incomprehensible is a "black box". The flight recorder is is a box: data goes into it but, as far as anybody on the aircraft is concerned, nothing comes out. Nobody needs to know whether it contains a wire recorder, as it used to, or solid state memory, as is now the case.

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  • by Moongrim on February 11th, 2009

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    Because the original black box was black.

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  • by Theby on February 11th, 2009

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    It most probably IS black after the crash!

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