Every commercial aircraft carries two devices designed to outlast the catastrophic forces of a crash: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, collectively known as black boxes. These ...

Richard Upchurch began his Brooklyn-based sound recorder business by making a handcrafted audio device for his nephew. A few more were requested by his teachers and then he started selling them online ...

After nearly five years of development, the team behind Earth’s Black Box has confirmed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black box recorder from the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week was found severely damaged at the crash site in ...

The box will be about 52 feet long and 13 feet high, made from reinforced steel and concrete that can survive cyclones, ...

Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic midflight blowout on Jan. 5 are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black box ...

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As part of our 20th anniversary coverage we thought it would be interesting to conduct brand new interviews with some of the artists interviewed in our very first issue way back in December 2001. We ...

What exactly are a plane's black boxes and how do they work? Aircraft manufacturers equip all their planes with two black boxes – a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. A flight data ...