If you're reading this, you've probably been on your fair share of flights. And while you may understand the science behind how planes fly, there's still something magical about the idea of soaring ...

How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot food and drinks at high altitude? And most important of all, how does a toilet work at 40 ...

A TikTok went viral after he explained what happens when people flush toilets on airplanes. Glossy wood decorates a bathroom in the business class section of an Emirates Airbus A380 at the ILA Berlin ...

They really are a flush above. A TikTokker recently went viral after demonstrating the true power that airplane toilets possess — showing how almost nothing in the sky-high lavatory is safe from its ...

A pilot named Garrett has gone viral on TikTok after giving the scoop on what happens to the poop after you flush an airplane toilet. “When your on an airplane and you gotta go, where does it go?,” ...

This awkward scenario could be a thing of the past though, thanks to a group of Brigham Young University physicists who figured out how to make airplane toilets quieter. After two years of trial and ...

That vacuum effect is going on continuously while the plane is in the air, says Jones – we just don’t hear it until we open the valve and connect the toilet to the system. When the plane is on the ...

Waste tanks – where everything that goes down the toilet ends up – are usually located at the back of the plane, and often at the front, too. When you press the flush button, a valve opens at the ...