airplane design

Over the years, we’ve gone over a lot of reasons why certain things on planes are the way they are. These are some of them: Why some planes’ emergency exit …

You’ve just boarded your aircraft and maybe you’re feeling a little smug because you already know so much stuff, like why planes still have ashtrays (even though smoking on planes …

If you have a window seat on a plane, you may notice a tiny hole down towards the bottom. You can’t feel it if you try to touch it, and …