If you've ever flown in an airplane, chances are you've asked yourself why all commercial aircraft have rounded or ...
Sometimes a single image can capture the contrast between past and present more effectively than pages of explanation, and that is exactly what happened when a Reddit post began circulating showing a ...
If you look closely at a modern commercial aircraft, you will notice that every passenger window features smooth, rounded ...
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 ...
Investigations into window damage on an Airbus A321neo, caused by high-intensity floodlights during a filming session, have turned up four other occurrences under similar circumstances. Three of these ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at CES 2020, Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX), the world’s leading supplier of electronically dimmable windows (EDWs) for the aerospace industry, ...
In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...
Team 32 worked with Textron Aviation to develop a novel electromechanical aircraft window shade system, including multiple light-filtering states for an optimal passenger experience. The design is ...
If there are any ways to describe the current trends for passenger cabin windows, they must include the words “larger,” “longer-lasting” and “state-of-the-art.” Passengers today want not only a better ...
Most airline passengers spend very little time looking closely at aircraft windows. The shades go up after take-off, clouds drift past for a while, then attention shifts elsewhere. Yet almost every ...