Black box is not destroyed even when the plane is crashed then why not make a plane from that material?

Answer 1

Because it would be so heavy that it would never get off the ground. Try and picture an M1A Abrams tank with 3 foot long wings. Would never fly.

Even if we came up with a magic compound that was light and tough enough to survive a 500 MPH impact into a fixed object such as the ground, everyone on board would be turned into hamburger. Well, maybe not hamburger; soup would be more like it.

The aircraft would come to a sudden stop, but the passengers would continue moving forward at 500 MPH. They would be cut in half by the seatbelts. Ever see one of those wire type cheese slicers? Same concept!

All of these body halves would then smash into the seat in front of them. Assuming that the seat was made of the same magic compound, the bodies would be instantly flattened to about 1" thick by the G-forces. All of the goo inside would squirt out through the sliced open mid-sections of the bodies and would be sprayed all over the inside of the cabin. Nice picture, eh?

Answer 2

In Black Box, the only devices that survive are the crash-survivable memory units (CSMUs) of the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. Typically, the rest of the recorders' chassis and inner components are mangled. The CSMU is a large cylinder that bolts onto the flat portion of the recorder. This device is engineered to withstand extreme heat, violent crashes and tons of pressure. In older magnetic-tape recorders, the CSMU is inside a rectangular box.
Black Box is made of using three layers of materials, the CSMU in a solid-state black box insulates and protects the stack of memory boards that store the digitized information.
The materials that provide a protective shell for the memory boards, starting at the innermost and working our way outward:
Aluminum housing - There is a thin layer of aluminum around the stack of memory cards.
High-temperature insulation - This dry-silica material is 1 inch (2.54 cm) thick and provides high-temperature thermal protection. This is what keeps the memory boards safe during post-accident fires.
Stainless-steel shell- The high-temperature insulation material is contained within a stainless-steel cast shell that is about 0.25 inches (0.64 cm) thick. Titanium can be used to create this outer armor as well.
Apart from that, its location inside the cockpit, provides a unique advantage as the entire aircraft becomes a protective case/Crumple Zone for the black box.even after this , it is crushed leaving only the CSMU.
Thus, its not only the material but a combination of several techniques which makes ablack box survice the crash.With these material used to make a chassis of a aircraft will make it the heaviest paper weight ever made.Even if it takes off, in the unfortunate event of an aircrash, the chasis will take the full impact of teh crash without any provision of a crumple zone. The impact of the suddent stop from a high speed will kill the passengers even if the outer shell is intact.

Answer 3

What an awesome question! I'm sure there is some practical reason that the material is too heavy or too difficult to work with. But, wouldn't it be great to have planes made from some indestructible material? But what would they make the black boxes out of then...would they even need them? I hope you become an aeronautical engineer and make this concept a reality. Peace.

Answer 4

I think it has to do with mass and structural strenghth. I used to wonder about that when playing with slot cars, cause they would go flying off the track and crash into the wall at, like, 200 scale m.p.h. and not even get scratched. But when something weighs what a plane weighs, and hits a solid object at a few hundred miles per hour, it would crunch up, no matter what it was made of.

Answer 5

If a plane is made from the black box material, it'll be too heavy to fly.

Answer 6

The material isn't big enough to cover the plane and if it was there would be no way for anyone to get out of the plane.

Oh yeah, the material is too heavy.

Answer 7

like the person above said the black box or flight data recorder/ cockpit voice recorder is actually orange. also the material isn't some exoctic metal only found on mars but plain old steel. an acft skinned entirely in steel would push gross weights well past an average medium to heavy sized weight of 250,000+.

Answer 8

the plane would be way to heavy to fly

do you know that the Black Box is not black at all?
it's really orange

Answer 9

the entire plane is a crumple zone for the box,
if you dropped the box onto a hard surface it will break

A plane would be to heavy to fly

Answer 10

It'd probably be too expensive and impractical, anyway, in any crash, bits and pieces of the plane survive, it doesn't just vanish, it might break up, but it still exists.