flight recorder: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: CORE - The Status of Flight Recorders in Modern Aircraft (PDF). Jul 28, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Inventing the black box. Mar 26, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Canberra Sunday Brunch - The 64th anniversary of the black box flight recorder. Jan 13, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Installation location analysis of automatic deployable flight recorder on aircraft vertical stabilizer (PDF). Sep 30, 2025
Add new Web site: SKYbrary Aviation Safety - Black box flight recorders (PDF). Jan 13, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The Status of Flight Recorders in Modern Aircraft (PDF). Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: ACM Digital Library - The Flight Recorder: An Architectural Aid for System Monitoring. Sep 14, 2024
Add new Web site: IBM Documentation - Flight recorder. Dec 19, 2023
Add new Web site: National Baseball Hall of Fame - Guide to the Black Sox Scandal (American League). Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: National Museum of Australia - Black box flight recorder invented. Mar 27, 2023
Article revised and updated. Aug 04, 2022
Add new Web site: Australian Government - Department of Defence - Defence Science and Technology Group - Black Box Flight Recorder. Aug 04, 2021
Add new Web site: IEEE Spectrum - The Inventor of the Black Box Was Told to Drop the Idea and "Get On with Blowing Up Fuel Tanks". Jul 15, 2021
Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Black Boxes Work. Oct 07, 2011
Added diagram of flight recorder. May 24, 2011
Information added on the technical capabilities and historical development of cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders. Jul 23, 2010
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Black Boxes (Flight Recorder) Work. Dec 26, 2008
Media added. Aug 14, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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