The black box which contains flight recordings can not be destroyed when a plane crashes. It has been recovered many times in exremley adverse enviorments as well as surviving the powerful explosion of an aircraft smashing into the ground and burning up. What is this material? Build the plane out of it or anything else that has the potential to blow up or crash!
2006-07-07 06:51:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Black box houses the flight data recorder that holds vital information incase of crash, but the box itelf is built like security boxes that you can buy for home or bank or business, etc. If you ever tried holding one, it's very heavy. So, it probably isn't practical to make the entire plane out of it. But, that's a good question to pose to the plane builders. Coming up with the material thats light enough yet strong enough to be in the air and protect the passengers and cargo would be nice.
2006-07-07 07:02:47 · answer #1 · answered by Nikki W 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
As many of the answerers pointed out, making a small box out of a dense metal is very different than making a plane out of the same metal. To give an example, when the length of an object increases by 2x, the amount of material increases by 8x. Since strength of an object is a function of the mass of the object as well as the strength of the actual material, a plane made of the solid reinforced steel of the 'black box' (which is actually orange) would literally collapse on the runway from its own weight, forget about flying the thing.
Even if the plane was indestructible, it's not the deformation that would kill the passengers, it's the deceleration. Having an indestructable plane decelerate from 600 mph to 0 in a fraction of a second would be fatal.
2006-07-07 07:15:13 · answer #2 · answered by Nick N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget, position also determines the survivability. The black box is located in the back of the plane. By the time the back of the plane reaches the ground in a crash, much of the force of the crash has been spent. This, combined with the material the black box is made out of, allows the black box to survive crashes.
2006-07-07 07:43:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The force from the impact is what is causing the majority of fatalities. If you were to somehow increase the strength of the fuselage using the same material as the "black box" this would most likely kill all passengers due to the fact that there would be no way to absorb the impact.
2006-07-07 07:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by lostl13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black boxes can and are destroyed in crashes. They are by no means indestructible. They simply have special protection to attempt to save the memory cores, or tapes in older models.
2006-07-07 13:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they made a plane out of that stuff, it wouldnt even get off the ground. the material would wegh too much, and even if it does protect the outside of a plane, if you ran into the ground at 500 plus mph, you would be squashed like a bug on a windshield even if ther plane was still in one piece
2006-07-07 12:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by wyoairbus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever think that maybe the 'black box' is made out of a really dense material, that wouldn't allow the plane to fly??? Just wondering. . .
2006-07-07 06:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by Gennie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its too heavy it will not stay in the air if the entire aircraft was made out of it.
2006-07-07 06:55:17 · answer #8 · answered by foolnomore2games 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it might be too heavy for the turbines or whatever to lift off of the ground.
2006-07-07 06:55:39 · answer #9 · answered by highstrung 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would never get off the ground!...or if it did..it would weigh 50,000 kgs, carry 4 pax and a case of Coke and burn 2,000 kgs of fuel and hour!
2006-07-07 08:31:30 · answer #10 · answered by helipilot212 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋