Airplane toilet waste doesn't just disappear into thin air. So, what happens to it? A few years ago, a British man had an ...

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 ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. The alarming noise ensues when you press the “flush” button in an airplane toilet and the bowl’s contents are magically sucked away into oblivion.

Despite having to fly for work frequently, I absolutely refuse to use airplane toilets unless I'm going to Europe in which case it simply can't be helped. These crammed monotone grey torture chambers ...

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 ...

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 woman has shown how strong the suction on airplane toilets is, using a clever trick to demonstrate. Jocelyn Saribay was on a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas on November 6, 2024, ...

Toilets in the sky Using water to flush airplane toilets is a no go because of aircraft weight restrictions. No biggie; instead, planes use air. The standard evac (evacuation) system uses differential ...

Airlines choose how many toilets they want in a plane, and where they want them. Jones says that there are minimum numbers per aircraft, depending on size, but airlines can go above those if they want ...