In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps began research flights in a modified Lockheed Electra; the XC-35 was the first airplane built with a pressurized cabin. The fuselage was designed with a circular ...

To explore and work in space, human beings must take their environment ... These bladders inflate automatically at reduced cabin pressure. They also can be manually inflated during entry to ...

Of course, fossil fuel consumption accounts for some 90% of an aircraft’s carbon footprint over a lifecycle. But the cabin represents 10% of the aircraft’s weight. And the tons of plastics a cabin ...

while Kansas State University researchers put the models to work in a mockup of a cabin. "If an aircraft has become contaminated, would it be safe to return it to service?" Gale asks. "And what ...