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Black Boxes Are Neither Black nor Boxes (discuss.)

a close-up of a flight recorder

Well, sometimes they are box-like.  Also, the “black box” that news reports refer to are really two separate items.  Neither one is black. The black box is made up of two items: The flight data recorder (FDR) is a device that preserves the recent history of the flight through the …

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