Электронная книга: Caroline Smailes «Black Boxes»

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• black box — i. The generic name given to crash data recorders and voice data recorders. Although called black boxes, they are orange. They can withstand very high temperatures and high impact. A typical recording of an earlier version of flight data recorder …   Aviation dictionary