Things Vintage: Inside a Vintage Black Box & A Vintage Aircraft Site

Bill "The Engineering Guy" opens up a vintage "black box" from a Delta airlines jetliner. He describes how the box withstands high temperatures and crash velocities because it is made from Inconel: A superalloy steels that is used in furnaces and others extreme environments.

The flight data recorder he shows is a Sundstrand FA-542 and was likely used on a DC-9 in the 1970s, although it could have been used as late as 1988 on a Boeing 727.




http://www.vintageaircraft.org/

Speaking of things "Vintage", take a  look at the EAA's "vintage" aircraft site: http://www.vintageaircraft.org/





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