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

“Watched a plane pause in the air today and y’all still think physics is real.” In a follow up post, Manidis writes, “Lots of ‘physics understanders’ in the qts pretending that they ...

Falling firmly under the fascinating science category of ‘What if…?’ comes the idea of powering airplanes with beamed microwaves. Although the idea isn’t crazy by itself, since we can even ...

This is simply a picture of a jet fighter travelling close to the speed of sound. The combination of the shape and speed of the airplane produces zones in which the pressure and temperature are ...