Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

Since the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was revealed back in 2007, it has represented a few firsts in the aviation industry. It was the plane that Virgin Atlantic used for the first flight fully powered on ...

Dimmable windows such as these, illustrating the transition from full clear to full dark, are being offered to Boeing by Gentex for the 777X. Credit: Gentex They are not the windows of a past ...