Big Brother By Heady2874 Jan 1, 1953 Flight Recorder invented Australian inventor David Warrens invents Flight recorder Jan 1, 1957 Production of ARL Production of Aeronautical Research Laboratory Jan 1, 1966 Cockpit voice recorder mandated Jan 1, 1972 Digital Flight Data Recorder introduced Jan 1, 1976 Ocean going ships required to use DFDR Jan 1, 1990 Solid State FDR created for crash/fire survivability Jan 1, 1992 30 Minute FDR version created Jan 1, 1995 2 Hour FDR version created Jan 1, 1998 Recommended in Fleet vehicles Jan 1, 2015 Mandatory in all US vehicles
