Having round windows is usually an aesthetic choice. If you look throughout your home, most — if not all — of the windows you will have are rectangular or square. Those panes of glass with four right ...

Today, all passenger windows on aircraft are round or a form of rounded rectangle. No windows have sharper edges. It wasn't always this way with the first jet-powered airliners featuring square ...

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 feat it really is and how much engineering goes into a metal tube that ...

There are some things we see so often that we stop noticing them. Airplane windows are one of them. We lean against them to catch a glimpse of mountains, cities, or clouds, but rarely think about why ...

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 ...

Why do airplanes have round windows? How strange would it be if you walked down the aisle of an airplane and buckled up next to a square window? It is not just a design choice; moreover, the rounded ...