The Airplane “Black Box” Isn’t Black? #inventionstories #designhistory

The airplane black box is actually bright orange — named for secrecy, not color. It was once banned from cockpits over privacy fears.
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David Warren and the Invention of the Black Box, Australian Government Archives, 1958
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