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Date Posted: 18:16:11 09/17/01 Mon
Author: SEB
Subject: Re: flight recorders
In reply to: KaT 's message, "Re: flight recorders" on 23:30:55 09/16/01 Sun

>Black Box recorders on planes are designed to
>withstand any impact in order for anyone who finds it
>to discover what happened to the plane before it
>crashed. inside the black box (which is actually
>orange, god knows why they call it black) is a loop of
>wire which is supposed to be indestructible.
>Apparantly you could heat it to white hot and it would
>still tell you what happened.
>I don't know what they're made out of though, so I'm
>afraid I can't explain why they're indestructible. But
>hey, I'm not sure you really care that much...
>
>BTW Distophia=proper rock stars. Lookin forward to
>next week hugely.

So why cant they just make the entire plane out of "indistructible stuff"??????? And also, if its so indestructible, how do they make it in the first place??? I'm just being silly now, aren't I???

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