http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/07/2 ... 2j3TP602HzInventor of airplane flight recorders dies(CNN) -- David Warren, the man who invented the airline flight data recorder commonly, though now incorrectly, known as the "black box," has died in his native Australia, the defense department said.
Warren died Monday at the age of 85.
Warren was born in 1925, the first child born to European parents in Groote Eylandt in northern Australia. He was sent south to boarding schools in Sydney for his education, according to a biography posted on the defense department website...
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+2Clinton Huxley wrote:
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*takes bow* 
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yeah FBM- everyone loves a big-head!FBM wrote:*takes bow*
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The Dawktor wrote:yeah FBM- everyone loves a big-head!FBM wrote:*takes bow*
I'll go to my grave declaring this the funniest Ratz headline EVAR!except for those other ones
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About 20 years ago, I was at a pub quiz and there was a question about what colour a black box flight recorder was. A bloke on my team immediately wrote down orange and claimed that the name "Black box" came from the name of its inventor - a Mr Black. Until this day, I have always assumed that to be true!
Yet another delusion gone - thank you for that, FBM!
BTW. Did you know that Black Bart isn't actually black? He's orange.
Yet another delusion gone - thank you for that, FBM!
BTW. Did you know that Black Bart isn't actually black? He's orange.
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Re: Inventor of 'black box' gets stuffed into one...
They are orange (I think). The term "black box" has been around for a lot longer than the flight recorder though. It's used to describe something in which the contents and processes are unknown or inaccessible. It just has inputs and outputs.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:About 20 years ago, I was at a pub quiz and there was a question about what colour a black box flight recorder was. A bloke on my team immediately wrote down orange and claimed that the name "Black box" came from the name of its inventor - a Mr Black. Until this day, I have always assumed that to be true!
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You're welcome. I'd take another bow, but you-know-who would mock me again.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:About 20 years ago, I was at a pub quiz and there was a question about what colour a black box flight recorder was. A bloke on my team immediately wrote down orange and claimed that the name "Black box" came from the name of its inventor - a Mr Black. Until this day, I have always assumed that to be true!
Yet another delusion gone - thank you for that, FBM!
BTW. Did you know that Black Bart isn't actually black? He's orange.
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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