You know that indestructible black box that on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of it?

Question

You know that indestructible black box that on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of it?

Answer 1

because terrorists would seize it and they would be invincible!!!!

ooooh that gives me an idea...

Answer 2

So people can keep asking this same question  over and over and over and over . You would have seen how many times this has been "asked" when you were geting ready to post it. Come up with something original.

Answer 3

they do........its called aluminum, theres a bunch of data collecting circuitry feeding memory computer chips inside of an impact resistant conatiner inside the tail because its the most survivable place on a plane.  the shell of the orange box is usually mangled, and only the memory chips are recovered

Answer 4

Yes, how completely tedious and uninteresting of you to ask, but I'll add this: "Black Boxes" are not black, they're orange, and they may be tough, but they are far from indestructible.

Answer 5

not feasible/cost

Answer 6

I am so tired of seeing this question :(

Answer 7

because "black boxes" are designed to survive a crash keeping the infromation stored within safe. Modern electronic & electro mechanical systems can withstand much higher shocks and loadings than wet mushy human beings. Some modern disk drives can with stand shocks in excess of 150G and still keep working, most humans struggle with over 5 G unless very well prepared.

So it would be pointless, in addition to the extra cost it wouldn't actually save lives, however learning what went wrong with a plane most certainly can save (other) lives.

Answer 8

good question?

Answer 9

What for?

Answer 10

Because the cost of a plane would sore from around £100million to around £1billion meaning a ticket from london to amsterdam would cost about £800.

It would also be very heavy like the difference between a ferrari and an army tank.

It probabley wouldn't get off the ground

Answer 11

Not again. Ahhhhhhhh. Not again.

Answer 12

Not ANOTHER original question.

Answer 13

thats a damm fine question, forget all those serious answers the above have given, you know weight and all that scientific rubbish, lets get this thing built my friend

Answer 14

WELL-------------------FOR  EXAMPLE.

IF THEY  MADE THE PLANE OF THE  MATERIAL---------

THE PLANE WOULD NEVER TEAR  UP.

AND---------PLANE MAKERS WOULD NOT  MAKE  ANY MORE ON A PLANE  ONCE IT'S BUILT.

'CAUSE PLANE WOULD NOT  BREAK.

Answer 15

1.  This was funny about the first three times.  Now it has been asked at least 4732 times, and you should go out back and punish yourself for asking it.

2.  The flight recorders are far from indestructible.  They are often damaged beyond use.

3.  Airplanes are built of light-weight materials, and flight recorders are not.  An airplane made of the same materials would be too heavy to fly.

Answer 16

another genius.

Because the aircraft manufacturers are evil and want everyone in a plane crash to die.

You can look up the last four thousand times this stupid question was asked.

For your info, and for the last time, those boxes are NOT indestructable.

Answer 17

A. The plane would weigh about 100 tons more, give or take. Seeing as just a small black box weighs about 200 pounds. If you made the entire plane of that, don't you think that would be slightly ridiculous?

Also, the material used to make the black box is part carbon fiber, which can be pretty costly when used in giant portions such as a plane.

~Jack

Answer 18

Because of weight and cost issues but also because of the flexibility of materials.  You have to have some flexibility in major structures of the plane, such as, wings and fuselage.  This flexibility allows the plane to absorb shock and vibration caused by turbulence, landing, etc.  With out this flexibility you risk the plane being too stiff and therefore too "brittle".  The ride would also be very harsh for any passengers.  The black box might be deemed "indestructible" but it is also taken into account that the blackbox is not going to take a direct impact in the event of a crash. The black box actually sits in a soft spot in the aircraft and the impact will be reduced by the impact taken by the plane.  Kind of like crumple zones in a car.  You could not just strap the blackbox to the nose of a missile and shoot it at a concrete wall.  It is not designed like that.

Answer 19

The plane would be unable to fly with all that armouring.

Answer 20

it would be to heavy

Answer 21

And if you crashed it, it would sort of be qualified as a WMD.

(wepon of mass destruction for you pre-schoolers)

Answer 22

haha one more time? give it a day then it will be asked again- haven't seen this one for at least 5 mins

"opening blinds on takeoff/dimming cabin lights for takeoff blahablahblah"

Basically it's all been said before weight costs etc.

Oh and the fact that in the sort of crash that would need 'black box' armouring, the PAX wouldn't survive it anyway due to mass G decelleration. Just look at the wreckage of the fatal turkish crash a few months ago- all dead, but fuselage 'relatively' intact... bang goes that idea then!