A recent viral TikTok video featuring a veteran pilot has shed light on a little-known aspect of air travel history – why airplane windows are round instead of square. Captain Steve, an experienced ...

While not everyone will have pondered the subject while staring out of the window during a flight, the question as to why aeroplanes have circular windows rather than square ones is interesting.

If you’ve ever traveled by plane, you’re likely aware that every airplane window you’ve ever seen has a round design, whether it be a circle or an oval. As it turns out, there’s an actually ...

Ever gazed out at your plane taking off and wondered why your plane windows always have rounded edges, unlike the hard corner in your home? There's a simple and very good reason, as explained by this ...

The faint moonlight poured in through a small square window, marking the start of the Night. But to the figure who had just emerged from his ragged sheets on a sagging mattress, it clearly marked the ...

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 ...

Initially, commercial airplanes featured square windows similar to buildings. However, midair disintegrations in the 1950s led engineers to switch to rounded windows. Rounded designs distribute ...