David Warren - inventor of the Black Box dies

Dr David Warren, aviation pioneer, inventor of the flight data recorder (black box) has died at the age of 85.
Salute rendered!
Media Release - Department of Defence

"Warren said in a 2003 interview. He based his design on mini pocket recorders he has seen at a trade fair.
"I put the two ideas together," he once said. "If a businessman had been using one of these in the plane and we could find it in the wreckage and we played it back, we'd say, 'We know what caused this." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_653875.html