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The History of the Black Box
Australian David Warren invented the prototype for the in-flight recorders now compulsory on all civilian flights. But he had to fight to get his idea into production.
The man who invented in-flight recorders, John and Yoko in bed in Amsterdam, the Beeching report on Britain's railways, 20 years since the Latino popstar Selena died, and a pioneer in Tuberculosis research, Denny Mitchison, remembers.
Photo: The in-flight recorder from the Germanwings crash. Credit: Reuters.
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