you know that little indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?

Question

Why don't they just make the whole plane out of the same substance?

Answer 1

oldie but a goodie

Answer 2

That's an old joke. Very old.

And......

If a plane made from indestructable components were to crash into the ground, the energy the impact creates would kill everyone, anyway. It's just not cost-effective. The lower cost of building the planes the way they do now - as compared to constructing them of stronger more expensive materials - helps airlines offset the cost of the inevitable lawsuits that will be filed when one crashes, because the crew was too drunk to fly - or land.

Answer 3

First of all that "black box" is actually orange, and if the material that this black box is made of, It would be too heavy to lift off the plane, so that's the reason..

Answer 4

For that matter, whenever I see a "plane-crash" movie, it's always the little girl's doll that gets found intact in the wreckage.

Obviously the solution is to make planes out of dolls.

Answer 5

Why, when the plane went from 500 miles per hour to stopped in a second everybody would be jelly anyway!

Answer 6

1. that would make the plane to difficult to take off.
2. "black box" is round and orange
3. this joke has been around since you were but a drop of whitish fluid.

Answer 7

i never thought about this question before but i think the great ideas and inventions comes after such questions,, but suppose that whole flying plans made out of that substance,, no more and modern plans will be made after that?

Answer 8

It would be so heavy it could never get off the ground

Answer 9

The plane would be too heavy to fly, I guess. :]

Answer 10

If I had a penny every freakin' time I heard that question...I'd be sittin' on a BIG pile of pennies!

Answer 11

Too heavy to fly.