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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look out from any airline seat and the shape appears entirely ordinary. Aircraft windows are rarely square and rarely have sharp corners. Instead, they follow a rounded outline that has become so ...