Black box: Inside a flight data recorder

Bill 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.

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[ad911001]

Not to be a stickler, but the tip would be a hard piece of metal... not tough.

[engineerguyvideo]

Point well taken!

[Shintataru]

You remind me greatly of Mark Hamill



[engineerguyvideo]

Or, as one commenter put it in my favorite all time comment "man, Mark Hamil has let himself go."

[DiamondPilotDan]

... Nice haircut

[engineerguyvideo]

Thanks!

[joe bob]

i like the music

[bigDeeOT]

No it isn't.

[NITECOREPD]

i have work with inconel steel before and its hard as fuck lool

[NITECOREPD]

mute button lmao

[z0nk1000]

get rid of the music pls its distracting

[Captain Caveman]

Invented in Australia.

AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE !

[Anerol Phillip]

And enter THE DOUCHEBAG.

[rikredsam]

Grammar error imbecile :P