DroWo 3.0

Dear EUROAVIAns, the Drone Workshop is back with its 3rd edition! On May 30th, you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge on drones and fly one at Villafranca airfield. The first part of the workshop will start at 15:00, with a brief on drone flight dynamics by Professor Fabrizio Giulietti, our flight dynamics …

Space crisis

Hello #EUROAVIAns, today we’re talking about one of the hardest periods in space exploration 🔭. Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has suffered some heavy economic sanctions 💰 and that is having an impact on an important number of space missions and the cooperation inside the ISS 🛰. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos since …

Antonov An-225 Mriya

Hello EUROAVIAns, it’s time for a fridayfact! 📅 Today we are talking about the heaviest plane ever built. In the 1980s the soviet space program “Burian” was in development. It was an almost exact counterpart of the US Space Shuttle.For this project, it was necessary to move the huge rocket parts, and there was no airplane able …

OpenFOAM Workshop Part 3

Good morning dear EUROAVIAns,the final appointment for the Open Foam Workshop is finally here! In this appointmen the PhD candidate Raoul Andriulli will review your work and give some final insights on how to model a two-phase flow. The workshop will be held online on the 17th of March at 10:00 CET and it is open …

Space Traffic Jam

Hello EUROAVIAns,We are happy to announce our 3rd Space Rendez-Vous, it will take place on the 22th of March at 18:30 (UTC +1) and the relator will be Dario Modenini, a professor of Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control at the University of Bologna. He will talk about space traffic jam: an emerging issue in the …

OpenFOAM Workshop Part 2

Good morning dear EUROAVIAns,After the success of the first lesson, the openfoam workshop comes back with another appointment! 💻 In this workshop you will learn how to use the Open Foam software and how to simulate a two-phase flow. 🏄🏼Everything under the wise guidance of the PhD Candidate Raoul Andriulli @raoul_andriulli 👨🏼‍🏫The second meeting will be on the 11th of March at …

Three years of us!!

EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna celebrates its 3rd birthday today! We are happy to celebrate this date with all of our members. We are looking forward to have beautiful moments like the ones that we lived in these years. Check out our new reel on Instagram

Happy New Year

Hello #EUROAVIAns 2022 has finally arrived and the EUROAVIA Local Board takes the opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year. We hope that, in one way or another, you are enjoying yourself! 2021 was a strange year for everyone.There were certainly difficult times for each of us but we like to think positively, so we hope …

James Webb Space Telescope

Good morning EUROAVIAns, today we talk about the James Webb Space Telescope, which will happen tomorrow at 13:20 CET from French Guana with an Arian 5 launcher. The telescope is the result of the collaborations of NASA, ESA and the CSA space agencies. Thousands of scientists, engineers, and other professionals from more than 14 countries …

Annie Easley

Annie Easley was born in Alabama in 1933. Living in the South American states at that time meant being subjected to laws called “Jim Crow” which primarily sought to prevent African Americans from voting. In this circumstance Easley pledged to help his community pass the ridiculous test they had to undergo in order to have …