What is a black box, (aircraft related)?

Answer 1

First off, "Black Box" is really a misnomer. It's actually high visibility yellow/orange, so it can be found easier.
We joke about it being called a black box, because when they first started installing them, they put them where the fuselage joined the wing, as this is the strongest part of the structure. Unfortunately, this is also where the fuel tanks are. After burning up in a pool of aviation fuel, they were usually black.
Now, there are actually 2 boxes per plane. One is a cockpit voice recorder, recording what is said in the cockpit, and any ambient noise.
The 2nd one records various settings of the controls, such as throttle settings, flap angle, rudder position, AOA (Angle of Attack), etc

Answer 2

The term Black Box is a placeholder name used casually, often by journalists, to refer to a collection of several different recording devices used in transportation: the flight recorders (flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder) in aircraft, the event recorder in railway diesel locomotives, the Event Data Recorder in automobiles and other recording devices in various vehicles. Black box (systems) is also a term used in physics and electronics to describe a mechanism in which the input and expected outputs are well understood but whose internal operations are deliberately and completely unknown, but this has no special connection with recording devices.

The black box term originated when after a meeting about the first commercial flight recorder named the "Red Egg" for its colour and shape, someone commented that, "This is a wonderful black box." Black box is more a humorous than an accurate term (the recorders are not generally black in color, nor are their operations unknown), and is almost never used within the flight safety industry.

A number of observational comedians have joked that, because the box seems to be indestructible, the substance used to make the box should be used to make the entire
aircraft.

Answer 3

There are actually 2 "black boxes" that record data on airplanes. One is the Flight Data Recorder which records all the aircraft's control inputs (throttle, rudders, altitude, etc). The other is the Cockpit Voice Recorder which records all radio conversations as well as cockpit conversations and noise. The cockpit voice recorder typically only records 30 minutes of data so when the boxes are recovered, only the last 30 minutes can be played back.

Answer 4

The orange box ,true color .Aircraft has 2 boxes ,voice recorder and flight data recorder which records 7 parameters of the aircraft

Answer 5

First off it's not really black, (it's bright orange so as to locate it easily). It records all communications between the pilots and the ground. it also records the flight path, angles, turns etc as well as errors or warnings received in flight. This information is useful when they want to find out what happened to a plane when it crashes.

Answer 6

the black box on an airplane records information related to the flight,it records radio transmitions,how fast the plane is moving,altitude and a whole lot of other info pertaining to it's flights.

Answer 7

Only the media calls them black boxes. They rarely get anything right regarding aviation. Most of the radios and such are black however.

Answer 8

it is a indestructible box in the aircraft that records airplane data and voice recordings

Answer 9

Read all about them here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-box.htm

They are not black by the way, they are orange so they are easier to find.