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n. a device which records various performance parameters of an aircraft; especially one designed to survive an impact and thus help in finding the causes of an accident; along with the cockpit voice recorder, it is part of the flight recorder
Usage examples of "flight data recorder".
There's no sign of survivors, the Russians claim they don't have the bodies or the wreckage, and there was no cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder even if it was recovered, is that right?
The QAR was the Quick Access Recorder, another flight data recorder installed to help the maintenance crews.
How the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder got nicknamed black boxes has always been a minor mystery to me.
The missiles always collected engine, systems, environmental, attitude, and computer data for the last thirty minutes of flight, like a flight data recorder did on an airliner, and it uploaded that information via satellite back to the launch aircraft and to Sky Masters Inc.
Telemetry, videotapes and the Flight Data Recorder info were carefully reviewed and the data compiled for a later in-depth analysis.
The android found the flight data recorder, opened it and removed its synthetic diamond cartridge, which he scanned with his tricorder.
CITS, the Central Integrated Test System, was a monitoring, recording, and troubleshooting device on the B-l bomber that acted like a flight data recorder.