An article in the December 1952 edition of Naval Aviation News, noted that "passengers in Navy transport planes have 10-fold ...

Looking backward is sometimes the only way to move forward, say aviation safety advocates, who are pushing for rear-facing passenger seats aboard airliners. They say that turning around the seats w… ...

While it might seem unusual, rear-facing seats have been used by some airlines, such as Southwest Airlines, who tweeted an image of the carrier's throwback rear-facing seats in 2021.

Yet NASA is getting ready to fly America's first plane with no forward-facing windows since the Spirit of St. Louis at exactly that speed. And it'll do it by relying solely on technology this time.

This was the motivation too when Zodiac Aerospace – an aircraft interiors firm – patented a new seating plan in 2015 that featured a combination of rear and forward-facing seats.

Nonetheless, most [passengers] would give the nod to forward-facing.” But the association could not produce any surveys or studies supporting this contention, and does not have a policy on the ...

Rear-facing seats and redesigned seatbelts could give passengers more protection, and improve survival rates in air accidents, an aviation expert has suggested.