Are you tired of the science fiction colossal where: people die, planets explode and the dad of the protagonist has the power of removing the air to anyone he wants ? Well Spaceballs is the movie for you! Conceived as the parody of Star Wars and Star Trek. In a very far away galaxy, the …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about turbine blades. Efficiency is of great importance in the field of aerospace engineering. Efficiency decreases fuel usage, increases capacity and reduces environmental effects. A major part of an aircraft’s efficiency is the burning temperatures of the fuel. A typical jet engine sucks in air, compresses …
Hello #EUROAVIAns 🚀💫, The Italian AS of @euroavia and @sidiinternational are pleased to announce a Webinar opened to everyone interested in innovation, technology and disruptive ideas 🤓. The event aims to explain in detail and in depth what the partnership with the School of Disruption consists of and what experiences and opportunities will be offered, both to EA members and to …
Good morning EUROAVIAns, today we talk about… flight simulators! To become a pilot you have to fly a lot of hours but also to keep your licence alive you have to train and practice emergency manoeuvres which are so dangerous that you can’t just fly and try it with a real plane: it’s only possible …
The legendary story of the man who said the famous phrase: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” “Un piccolo passo per l’uomo, un gigantesco balzo per l’umanità” After suffering the terrible mourning of the loss of his daughter, Neil Armstrong joins NASA in 1962. After a career as a test …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we are talking about CFD, the acronym for ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics’, one of the newest developments in aerospace engineering, but not only! It consists of providing the numerical solution of a fluid dynamics model, usually based on partial-derivatives differential equations. This is a very difficult task, because these …
Ermenegildo Preti was an italian aeronautical engineer. He was born in Milan in 1918 and, from a very young age, he showed an interest in aviation. In 1936, while he was still attending high school, he designed his first glider, the later called CVV1 “Pinguino” (Penguin). Two years later he started studying industrial engineering at …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about vanMoof bikes. We see the signs daily, we can see it when walking through the city centre, when going for a stroll in the park and even when taking a tough hike across the mountains. Pollution always surrounds us, be it in the plastic besides …
Hello #EUROAVIANs 👋 Today we want to congratulate the guys of the “Cosmic Flares” team, who won the first edition of the EUROAVIA Hackathon, organized in collaboration with KIMbcn and ESA Space Solutions 🛰. The competition consisted in choosing one of the problems proposed by various companies and solving them with the expert support💡. Our winning team …
What if you are a discredited major US Army obliged to fight a futuristic war against a race of aliens that remind you of the biggest reptiles on our planet? And if I tell you that the decisive battle will be in Verdun, the same place where a century years ago France and Germany fought …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about Alitalia. Alitalia was the largest italian airline, it was created in 1947 and ceased operations on the 15th of October of this year selling its assets to ITA Airways a new italian fag-carrier. It was property of the Italian Government until its partial privatization in …