This page lists and provides links to Ken Fraser's local collection of the best quality
images he has relating to the ARL black box. The quality of the images varies widely and
many of the earlier ones are of poor quality. A description of each image is provided and,
where possible, its year of creation is given.
Image |
Description |
Date |
Size kb |
Quality |
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Mk 1 ARL airborne system including small electronics module at bottom. |
1958 |
453 |
Good |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL airborne system in boxes: electronics unit left, recorder right. |
1962 |
409 |
Poor |
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Mk 2 ARL airborne System out of boxes: electronics unit left, recorder right. |
1962 |
278 |
Medium |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL ground station unit. |
1962 |
438 |
Medium |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL ground station recovery of 23 March 1962 test flight: Oscillogram of total signal
on wire and its separation on playback into speech and data components. |
1962 |
1206 |
Medium |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL ground station recovery of 23 March 1962 test flight: Flight data plot. |
1962 |
423 |
Poor |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL Ground Station recovery of 23 March 1962 test flight: Enhanced flight data plot
for 60 year laboratory anniversary. |
1999 |
1404 |
Medium |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL Ground Station recovery of 23 March 1962 test flight: Short section of flight data
with audio annotation. |
1962 |
2395 |
Poor |
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image. |
Mk 2 ARL Ground Station recovery of 23 March 1962 test flight: Short section of flight data
with audio annotation redrawn for 60 year laboratory anniversary. |
1962 |
1450 |
Good |
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image. |
Digital printout of electronic counter output (this was a recording of simulated data to
illustrate a proposed extension of the single-channel-at-a-time printout in use with the
Ground Station Unit). |
1962 |
46 |
Medium |
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image. |
Dave Warren with Minifon recorder (left) and Mk 2 recorder (right). |
About 2000 |
4329 |
Good |
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image. |
Dave Warren in 1962. |
1962 |
23 |
Poor |
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image. |
Ken Fraser working on Ground Station recovery in 1962. |
1962 |
314 |
Poor |
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image. |
Mk 2 electronics team. From left Lane Sear (1964), Ken Fraser (1959)
and Walter Boswell (1961). |
Various |
42 |
Poor |
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image. |
Lane Sear image from Black Box book by Janice Witham. |
1964 |
729 |
Poor |
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image. |
Ken Fraser image February 1959. |
1959 |
1415 |
Good |
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image. |
Walter Boswell image-1 February 1961. |
1961 |
11 |
Poor |
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image. |
Walter Boswell image-2 February 1961. |
1961 |
477 |
Poor |
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image. |
Ken Fraser image about 1970. |
About 1970 |
10 |
Poor |
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image. |
Fire testing the black box recording. |
1962 |
70 |
Medium |
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image. |
Marie Ferrari (nee Welch) holding airborne Flight Memory system. |
1962 |
46 |
Poor |
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image. |
Flight Memory public display at International Trade Fair in Melbourne
from 27 February to 16 March 1963. |
1963 |
1283 |
Medium |
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image. |
Davall Red Egg magnetic wire airplane accident recorder. |
1968 |
80 |
Good |
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image. |
Image of 400-day torsion pendulum clock given by English recorder manufacturer
Davall to Warren, Sear and Fraser with individual names on the respective plaques. |
1963 |
292 |
Medium |
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image. |
Royal Aeronautical Society Lawrence Hargrave award Feb-2001. |
2001 |
5372 |
Good |
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image. |
Royal Aeronautical Society Lawrence Hargrave award image showing from left Ken Fraser, David Warren
and John Anderson (Deputy PM). |
2001 |
6081 |
Good |
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image. |
Royal Aeronautical Society Lawrence Hargrave award image: from left
Ruth & David Warren, Ken & Sandra Fraser. |
2001 |
5435 |
Good |
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image. |
Royal Aeronautical Society Lawrence Hargrave award image: Ken and Sandra Fraser. |
2001 |
3272 |
Good |
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image. |
Ken Fraser attending the Royal Aeronautical Society Lawrence Hargrave award. |
2001 |
1468 |
Good |
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image. |
David Warren (left) and Ken Fraser holding Mk 2 recorder at
DSTO Melbourne on 8-Jun-2001 (image 1). |
2001 |
34 |
Medium |
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image. |
David Warren (left) and Ken Fraser holding Mk 2 recorder at
DSTO Melbourne on 8-Jun-2001 (image 2). |
2001 |
692 |
Good |
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image. |
Sign the "Dave Warren Building" for the DSTO Headquarters building in
Canberra officially named on 25 March 2014. |
2014 |
5052 |
Good |
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image. |
The "Dave Warren Building". |
2014 |
4812 |
Good |
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image. |
Block schema of ARL Flight Memory Ground Station equipment. |
1968 |
29 |
Good |
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image. |
Block schema of various systems of flight data decoding used in ARL Flight Memory Ground Station. |
1968 |
62 |
Good |
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image. |
ARL Flight Memory Ground Station waveforms relevant to the generation of output for a digital counter. |
1968 |
120 |
Good |
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image. |
Ken Fraser with Chief Defence Scientist Tanya Monro at the Street Theatre in Canberra, Australian
Capital Territory (ACT) in November 2019. |
2015 |
2635 |
Good |
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image. |
Ken Fraser with wife Sandra, dog Amy and children clockwise from top Steven, Gavin, Alison and Lauren. |
2015 |
516 |
Good |
