Why can’t we just make the whole plane out of black box material?
In: Engineering
The interstate isn’t wide enough.
The black box isn’t made of some incredibly tough material that we don’t otherwise use in aircraft. It’s just stainless steel and titanium, solidly braced and heavily constructed. If we built aircraft the same way crash landing would be nearly impossible, largely because the plane would be too heavy to fly and crashing it would require driving over the edge of a cliff.
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