Instead of water, airplane toilets use a vacuum mechanism to suck waste into a holding tank and, despite rumors, it's safe to flush while seated on the toilet. If you're reading this, you've probably ...

Airplane toilets are anything but a simple touch-and-flush operation. Flight experts wowed travelers after revealing the “extraordinary” amount of engineering that goes into allowing people to safely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A woman has shown how strong the suction on airplane toilets is, using ...

However demoralizing it may be to use that airplane bathroom, the very fact that airport terminal fast food is offered, let alone become a tradition for so many, is a testament to the modern age of ...

Brent Wells has seen things that most people would pay to forget. But that’s to be expected when your company’s slogan is “We ♥ Airplane Lavatories!” “It’s a crappy job, all puns intended,” said Wells ...

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 ...