Whether you love your window seat or prefer to stay far away and forget you’re in flight, you’ve no doubt noticed that all airplane windows are round. It’s something that you probably haven’t ...

Airplane windows have a distinctive rounded-oval shape, unlike those found elsewhere. Why this design? It boils down to safety, physics, and engineering.

Air travel has become such a routine part of modern life that many passengers rarely stop to consider the engineering marvels surrounding them. Every detail inside an aircraft, from the shape of the ...

Person looking out of an airplane window - simona pilolla 2/Shutterstock It's easy to get on a plane and jet off to wherever you like in the world. Some people never even think about what an amazing ...

In her response to the opinion letter 'Congratulations, Democrats,' Mrs. Brenda Washington includes this seemingly unrelated thought-provoker: "Here's a trivia for you two old goats. Up until the ...

Well apparently there's a reason for this not unconnected to safety. In the early days of airplanes (we're talking 1903), square windows were the norm and when commercial jetliners became popular in ...