Flight Data Recorders
*Russian* ??
Michael Henry wrote:
I was reading this article about a Russian air crash - here is an
excerpt...
MAK adds that the quality of the flight-data recorder information
is "unsatisfactory" because of partial thermal damage to its
magnetic tape, caused by the intense fire which followed the crash.
Which made me think: magnetic tape?! Surely we've come far enough that
we can be using solid-state storage in flight data recorders?
Does anyone know why FDRs would still be using what, to me, is archaic
technology?
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