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But is he any good? Summer signing?

Likewise I was an aircraft engineer and I agree there's so much crap spoken from 'experts'. When you hear something on tv that you know is rubbish, it makes you wonder about other things being spoken about subjects that you're a layman in.

You are correct sir, however the ones used as we know them now, have always been red/orange. There's some that say the term black box comes from a quote referring to the red egg but I tend to agree with your post. Apart from the 'black box' all the on board computers are in black boxes.

They have always been red, the original being called Red Egg made by S. Davall & Son.

They are not that resistant, they are built strong but would not survive direct impact. It's their location in the tail section of aircraft that make their survivability or more so their contents, more likely. Aircraft tend not to reverse into a mountain.

The problem with this type of incident is that they roll out some sort of "expert" in the field who is generally not that well briefed and place on tv or the airwaves. Now with so many documentaries on tv explaining how aircraft accidents happen all of a sudden everyone knows everything. I...

The school of thought that doesn't take into account the ability when, ultimately necessary allows the pilot to take the aircraft beyond its flying envelope and possibly save the people and the aircraft. The airbus doesn't allow this. Being fly by wire it does so by logic.