Sentences with phrase «aircraft flight recorders»

Smarter black boxes Why do aircraft flight recorders not routinely stream their data via satellite to servers on the ground?

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Flight recorders vary widely, but the latest models record more than 100 aspects of an aircraft's behaviour, such as which way the rudder is pointing and the plane's speed.

Questions on the safety of modern aircraft raised in your report on the loss of an airliner in the mid-Atlantic on 1 June may never be answered if the plane's «black box» flight recorders can not be found (13 June, p 19).

It is sending a ship - towed device to its fleet in the Indian Ocean — one that can listen out for the ultrasonic signal from the downed aircraft's flight recorders.

During the past 18 months, the firm represented four families at an inquest into the death of five service personnel killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, which led to a recommendation that safety rules should be reviewed and all military aircraft fitted with flight data recorders.

EDRs are similar to commercial aircraft flight - data recorders, but don't record voices or GPS locations and only retain information during a crash event, and from 5 to 30 seconds immediately before.

Repair avionics equipment and perform scheduled maintenance on aircraft for a private jet company including: flight control and data recorders TCAS systems instrumentation and electrical / electronic systems and accessories.