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Hubert Warren (left) died in one of Australia's first major aircraft accidents

On Friday, 19. October 1934, The Passenger Plane Miss Hobart fell from the sky to The Sea .

Eight Men , Three Women and a baby boy fell with her, devoured - it is believed - by The Waters of the Bass Strait lies between Tasmania and the Australian mainland.

The Plane wreck was never found.

One of those on Board, a 33-year-old Anglican missionary, Rev Hubert Warren, the travel was related to his new parish in Enfield, Sydney. His wife, Ellie, and the four children stayed behind to follow the intention of the boat.

The Reverend 's last gift to his eight-year-old son, David , was a crystal radio set that The Boy is deeply appreciated.

As a border, Launceston Boys' Grammar School in Tasmania, David Warren tinkered with The Machine , after you teach, to learn, to Work what it is. He charged cricket friends to hear a penny matches, and within a few years, the sale of the home was copies at five shillings each.

Like a school boy, David Was fascinated by electronics, and learned to his own radio sets was the young David is charismatic and a wonderful speaker, a boy with star quality. His Family , who dreamed of were very religious, would he be a Protestant preacher.

But that was not to be. The Gift of Rev Hubert, man of God, has a Love Affair with science.

It would be as life-saving importance.

By his mid-twenties, David Warren , on His Way to a science degree from the University of Sydney, a graduate diploma in education from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in chemistry at Imperial College, London.

His specialty is the Rocket Science was, and he went to Work as a scientist for the Aeronautical Research Laboratories (ARL), part of the Australian Department of defence on aircraft.

In 1953, was awarded to The Department , which is trying to solve it an expert panel, costly, and stressful puzzle: why has The British De Havilland Comet, The World 's first commercial jet airliner, and the great hope of the new Jet Age , keep Crash ?

, He thought, it could be the Tanks ; But there were dozens of possible causes, and nothing But death and rubble as evidence. The panel continued to discuss what they knew.

"the people were chattering about staff training and pilot error, and a fin break from the cock, and All sorts of things that I knew nothing about," Dr. Warren said More Than 50 Years later.

"I found myself dreaming of something I had seen the week before in Sydney, The First post-war fair. And that is what is claimed to be The First pocket-recorder, the Miniphon. A German device. There is nothing in front, as it..."

was marketed in The Miniphon, as a dictation machine for business people who can sit at your Desk (or on trains and planes) recording the letters, which are later typed up by your Secretary / secretaries. David , who likes to make swing music and played the clarinet, the just wanted to, he could, bootleg recordings of the jazz musician Woody Herman .

However, if it is proposed by his fellow scientists, the latest hell of a comet could have been kidnapped, something clicked in him.

The chances that a recorder was on Board and survived the fiery wreck were basically equal to zero. But what if every Plane in the sky, had a mini-recorder in The Cockpit ? If it was hard enough, accident investigators would never again confused also, because you would have audio up to the moment of The Crash . At least you would know what was said to the pilots, and listened to.

The idea fascinated him. To hurried back to the ARL, he has to tell his boss about him.

Alas, his superiors do not share his enthusiasm. Dr. Warren said he was told: "It is nothing to do with chemicals or fuels. You're a chemist. Have to admit that the instruments of the group and blow up the Tanks . "

'Talk , and I'll know you bag'David , that his idea for The Cockpit Voice recorder was a good one. Without official support, there was little he could do about it - But he could spirit out of his.

was promoted When his boss, David built his invention. His new boss was fascinated, and Dr. Laurie Coombes, ARL chief superintendent was. She pushed him to always Work on it - But discreetly. Since it is not a government venture, or a war approved to win a weapon, could not be seen to take a lab, Time , or money.

Dr. Warren said The Chief superintendent had him admonished: "If I Talk to anyone, including me, on this matter, I need to get out. "

It was a sobering thought for a young man who has a wife and Two Children .

But his boss back cover, to secretly purchase one of the precious new dictation Recorder, and chalks it as "an instrument necessary for the laboratory..."

David continues to ARL in 1958, Promoted, Dr Warren wrote his idea in a report with the title "A device for the support of investigation of aviation accidents", and sent it in the industry as a whole.

The pilots' union, reacted with anger, branding the recorder-snooping device, and insisted, "no Plane would Take Off in Australia with Big Brother ".

That was one of his better reviews.

Australia is declared as the civil aviation authorities, there is no immediate significance, "and the Air Force to be feared", it would "yield more expletives than explanations".

Dr. Warren was trying to pack it All In .

But his eldest son, Peter, says his father was stubborn, with a non-conformist streak, the by his whole worldview.

"He has us skiing," he recalls, "But he has to wear skiing in the dishwashing gloves, because he wanted to not gloves pay $30 for a pair of skis -. He was not in the least afraid. He didn't want to wait and follow The Herd at All . "

It was in this spirit that Dr. Warren took to his garage and mounted his 20-year-old radio-parts. He had decided the only way to overcome his critics " ridicule and suspicion was to build a solid prototype.

It would be The First Time with the "black Box " flight recorder.

" Put that lad on the next courier!'One day in 1958, when The Flight recorder had been completed and shortly after the laboratory received an unusual visitor. Dr. Coombes, The Chief superintendent, was which a friend from England .

"Dave!", he said, "Tell him what you are doing!"

Dr. Warren explained: his world-first prototype used a steel wire to store four hours of pilot-votes plus instrument readings and automatically delete older records, so it was reusable.

There was a pause, And Then the guest said: "I say, Coombes, old buddy, this is a damn good idea. You guys put on the next courier, and we will show that it is in London. "

The Courier was a Hastings transport Plane , so that a run in England . You had to know someone to get pretty powerful, with a seat on it. Dr. Warren asked who that man was raffled off were tickets around The World , someone he never met.

The Answer Robert hard Ingham (later Sir Robert), The Secretary of The British Air Registration Board and a former Air Force General in the RAF was.

In the words of David : "He was a hero. And he was a friend of Coombes, and if he gave away a seat, you took it. "

A few weeks later, Dr. Warren was bound on a Plane for England - not to say with strict instructions, Australia Department of Defence, what he was really doing it because "someone in the forehead would frown on you".

In the heart of incredible irony, the Plane lost one engine over The Mediterranean sea.

Dr. Warren recalled: "I said: 'mate, we have lost a donk seem to be - who want to go back?' But we'd come from Tunisia and it was about 45 degrees overnight. We did not want to go back to this hell hole. "

they decided they could do it, if you plowed.

He took the rest of The Flight , thinking that even if he died, the limp-transport-Plane , "at least I would have proved the bastards wrong!"

"But , unfortunately, we did not prang - we have safely landed..."

in 1958, David and his wife, Ruth, had four children. The oldest, Peter, recalls that he had to fly to England In England , Dr Warren "the ARL flight Memory Unit" at The Royal Aeronautical establishment, and some commercial instrument-maker.

The British have loved it. The BBC ran the TV and radio to study programmes, and the UK civil aviation authority started Work , The Device is mandatory in the civil aviation industry. A Middlesex company, in S Davall and sons, approached the ARL on the production rights and began manufacturing.

If The Device will be launched as a "black Box ", The First , from the orange line were-so they would be easier to find after a Crash - and they remain so today.

Peter Warren believes that the name comes from a 1958 interview, his father gave the BBC.

Today, in The Black boxes, fire-proof, ocean-proof and encased in steel. And which are compulsory on any commercial flight.

"He was sitting there in 1958, saying:" this device can make this happen. '"

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Source of news: bbc.com