I heard that it was blown around by wind but that information might have come from this forum. 

The bloke that painted them was colour blind?

peter67 wrote:

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Buzz you saying forum members can be windy?? very funny.

bgt as a passenger I like sitting on aircraft black boxes, they always find them after an accident. They are painted flouro orange so why call them black, anyone know?

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 Because it is a box & orange objects are round.

In photography you use a black box for light metering, but it is actually internally black with a hole in the side. The internal space gives you, for the purposes of general photography a good enough perfect black reference point.

If they said the plane or boat had an orange sphere then that would make sense.

If the "black box" or "orange sphere" fails to provide any useful information, they should have painted it yellow!

 

 

Er I didn't ask why they were black. I've been defamed, humiliated, miss quoted and whatever else.

But most ships, trains and planes have black boxes installed. And if you have a car with a navigation system in it you also have a black box. It will tell the policed you were visiting your girl friend and not at Maccas having a cheese burger.

This must be the biggest BS I have seen ,



Trafficked Children, Bodies, Weapons Found on Evergreen Ship Blocking Suez Canal

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DMaxer wrote:

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I don't think the good ship Venus that Doug, bgt and I were referring to was any part of the navy, Possum. I think it was in a class all of its own.

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 The Good Ship Venus was indeed a private boat.

No one knows where it is today as it has sadly been retired from service mainly due to it not being able to stick to a schedule no matter who was the skipper.

It was also reported that it had other more operational design faults.

Apparently it had a figure head up on the bow which had excessive ball weight in the area near the top of the head.

Reportedly there were other areas of excessive ball overhang which then caused the problem of the ship becoming too heavy on the oars.

To compensate they moved all the oarsmen to the rear but then the ship began taking water over the stern.

They then emptied the water tanks and threw the food, the wife and the dog overboard and it then sailed on happily apart from the generator annoying other sailors when they were drafted up at night close to other boats.

For a while there was a bloke in charge of weight distribution but he was found to cause more instability. It was something to do with the tail of the dog they said. This was fixed when the dog went overboard.

This old ship certainly had a colourful life. Someone said that if they could buy it they would remove the figure head but no one seems to know where this old girl is. Others said that removing the figurehead would take all the fun out of sailing her.

The last report is that she apparently went down on an exposed ...................!!

From memory, I think Mr Freeman the ship's cook had a pretty limited menu to offer.