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 ...

Air India has in recent months experienced recurrent disruptions of flights on its international routes due to the overflow of lavatories. The problem has attracted a lot of concern, with many raising ...

“The Navy used a brand new toilet and sewage system on the CVN 77 and 78, similar to what is on a commercial aircraft, but increased in scale for a crew of over 4,000 people. To address unexpected and ...

Waste in the military has long been a problem—but in the case of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers the problem has been specifically one of human waste or more accurately how the waste has clogged the ...

“It would get to a point where it’s too heavy to adhere to the toilet servicing panel, so it would fall out and that’s what blue ice was,” he says. This used to be more common until the 1980s, when ...

“The aircraft needs all the power it can get from the engines to take off,” he says. “They don’t put the ovens on till they’re airborne because of the load on the electrical system. Once it’s cruising ...