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Last updated: 12 November 2004
General
:
Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR) and Flight Data Recorders (FDR)
General information from the NTSB.
Black boxes
General information from the Australian Transportation Safety Board.
World’s first flight memory recorder (Black box)
Back box history.
Feasibility of Airborne Flight Recorders on Commercial Aircraft
by Miles A. Cox, Erik P. Fantasia, Benjamin D. Rider, Timothy M. Rye - April 2000
A Better Black Box
by Mark Alpert, Scientific American
ARINC- Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) Subcommittee
Howstuffworks - How Black Boxes Work
Regulations
:
Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Rules
(FAA Rule 18 August 1997) -
AC 20-141 Airworthiness And Operational Approval Of Digital Flight Data Recorder Systems
(FAA Advisory Circular 5 October 1999)
AC 25.1457-1A Cockpit Voice Recorder Installations
(FAA Advisory Circular 3 November 1969)
AC 21-10A Flight Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder Underwater Locating Devices
(FAA Advisory Circular dated 19 April 1983)
Transport Canada
CAR 625.33 Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders
Industry
:
Smiths Aerospace
Model 3253 Voice & Data Recorder
L-3 Communications Corp. Aviation Recorders
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Universal Avionics Systems Corporation
Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR)
SightRecorder
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Honeywell
Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorders
SFIM Inc.
Aircraft Data Recording Systems