If blackboxes in aeroplanes are indestructible why dont they make the plane out of the same stuff?
2007-01-10 09:55:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
They are not indestructible...just very strong.
2007-01-10 13:32:51 · answer #1 · answered by Better_than_you 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
More importantly, why is this question asked 3 or 4 times a day?
It's not indestructable. It's protected mainly by the crushable cabin of the aircraft. Only the data recorder mechanism is hardened. If you built an aircraft to those standards, it would never leave the ground. Imagine an M1A Abrams tank with 3 foot wings.
Even if you had some magic material that was totally indestructible and light enough, the passengers would still all be killed. When the aircraft crashed, it would come to an instant stop but the passengers would keep moving at 500 MPH. They'd but cut in half by the seatbelts which would act like cheese slicers. The body parts would then be smashed into the seat or bulkhead in front of them and all of the guts and goo would spray all over the inside of the aircraft. Nice visual, eh?
2007-01-10 11:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Black boxes are located in aircraft location where during crash that aircraft part gets sheared and be thrown or least damaged. I am saying about the tail section of the aircraft. The black box itself gets damaged too, but the recorded part (sort of metal tape) is indestructible.
2007-01-10 10:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by Erase Program Read Only Memory 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Flight Data Recorder or the so-called Black Box is really orange. Anything is destructible, but to what degree? Most are found as they radiate a signal for authorities to key-in on. All data can then be retrived to hopefully conclude something.
2007-01-10 14:19:50 · answer #4 · answered by HairyBack 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Flight Data Recorders (FDR's) and Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR's) are not indestructible. They're tough, but they are routinely damaged or destroyed during a severe crash.
The "indestructible" image they hold is an urban legend and a product of the imagination of the media. (Remember the "unsinkable" Titanic?)
Secondly, they're painted bright orange...in order that the crash investigators can more easily locate them in the wreckage. Nobody in the aviation industry calls them "black boxes." We call them FDR's or CVR's. Again, the "black box" moniker is a media invention.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/cvr_sidefront_lg.jpg
http://www.meib.org/images/9911_datarecorder.jpg
http://news.com.com/i/ne/p/photo/flight5966_400x301.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/black-box-ntsb-990a.jpg
2007-01-10 10:26:13 · answer #5 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
AGAIN? HOW CAN THIS BE ASKED EVERY FEW DAYS??????
Stupid question, why does anyone answer.
Black boxes are tough, not indestructable.
Canon balls are tougher, so are iron bombs, why not make planes the same way as those? Well, because a 747 made the same way as a canon ball would weigh more than 30,000 tons instead of under 400.
STUPID question. NOT clever. Not even a little bit.
2007-01-10 13:33:32 · answer #6 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The official answer to this question is because of the fact the line infrastructure does not comprise lanes huge adequate to house jets on them. In different words - the rattling ingredient may be too heavy to get off the floor. And who mentioned something approximately indestructible?
2016-11-28 02:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a little easier protecting a 10 inch long box than a 150 foot long airplane.
2007-01-10 10:12:02 · answer #8 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think that Stephen Wright (no relation to Orville or Wilbur) asked that same question.
2007-01-11 09:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by ta2dpilot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the plane would weight much more than it needs too and cost a lot more.
Haven't heard this one before ;-)
2007-01-10 10:02:59 · answer #10 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋