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(10-04-2015 05:13 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Is that an aircraft flight data recorder ("black box") in the last picture? The orange paint leads me to believe it might be.

All of the orange and yellow things are flight data recorder related stuff. The orange bits were all part of a network of recording equipment used in structural stress testing of the Lockheed C-130 back in the 1960s. The large orange box in the foreground is a network box, and the silver shock-mounted thing further back is the actual recording oscillograph. The orange boxes were made by Technology Incorporated out of Dayton OH, and the oscillograph itself is a Century Electronics 409B.

The yellow box is a test set for a different flight data system used on the F-100 Super Sabre, and the black box in the foreground is the electronic turbine control from 747-123 cn 20103/65. The teletypewriter in the back is a Tracor AN/UGC-129. In one of the other photos, you can see a Giannini VGH recorder with tape cartridge, manufactured around 1962.