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 ...

When you glance out your airplane window at 30,000 feet, that curved little portal seems like a simple design choice. But the reason it is round has nothing to do with style. It is the result of one ...

When it comes to airplane windows, it’s not hip to be square. The shape of airplane windows might seem arbitrary, but there’s actually a grim reason behind their design, according to air experts. They ...

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 ...

Mention windows on a plane to most travelers, and their minds usually jump to the age-old debate: window or aisle? (For me, the answer is quite obviously window.) But the topic curves in a different ...

Have you ever wondered why airplane windows are round? The big reason is the altitude that passenger jets fly. Private planes that fly at lower altitudes have square windows because there is less of a ...

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 ...