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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Figure 1 is an exploded conceptual view of the wireless black box recorder system

configuration showing the most basic parts of the system and its ability to connect to

interstellar satellite networks (30) for flight data collection and data transmission of black box

data to remote data centers (25) which in turn stores critical flight data and which can be

accessed remotely if needed.

As shown in the illustration, the system encompasses two (2) flight data records, one of

which is deployable or ejectable which uses an ejection sensor (6) system to enable the

device to deploy from the aircraft in the event of a crash. The systems contains both the

cockpit voice recorder (8) and wireless/ejectable flight data recorder which mirrors data (17)

from the aircraft fixed recorder (15). A quick access recorder (2) (QAR) houses the video

port (3) for processing video data from the video system (1) used to monitor the cockpit and

video images from the cabin. Most importantly, this quick access recorder also houses the

wireless satellite interface (22) and antenna (19) used to obtain a broadband or high speed

data connections (21) to a communications satellite network (30) to backup and write data to

a remote data center (25) which saves a backup of the flight data in realtime in the event the

data from the on board black boxes are lost or compromised. The data collection processor

(17) is an algorithm resident to the quick access recorder to compress and encrypt the data

so that the process of data transmission is faster, robost, and secured.

Figure 2 is an exploded conceptual view of the invention when the internet (13) is used

as a possible communication scheme for data communication and for accessing the quick

access recorder (2) and internet protocol (ip) based data centers which may located

anywhere within venue of the network broadband satellite (23). Internet communication is an

option of direct satellite (23) communications. as implied, the use of internet (13) protocol

allows for the addressing of multiple data storage devices which may be simultaneously

accessed and written to for the maintenance and protection of the flight data.
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