(CNN) — 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 ...

The SR-71 Blackbird was a marvel of Cold War engineering — a plane that flew faster than a bullet and higher than missiles could reach. Its secret wasn’t just design, but titanium: a rare, ...

Autopilot is a flight-control system that allows a pilot to fly an airplane without continuous hands-on control. But this feature isn't as automatic as you might think. There's no robot sitting in the ...

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.

We often think about how planes work – how they get into the air, and stay there safely. What we think about less are the everyday functions taking place on onboard. Air circulation, heating food and ...