Dear #EUROAVIAns, today we’ll give a quick look to what is considered the future of urban life, and a solution to everyday problems with mobility in urban areas 🏙. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) consists in the use of flying vehicles to mobilize people and cargo in a quick and efficient way. Flying in urban areas means …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hello #EUROAVIAns, today we are talking about the Davis wing. In 1937 Consolidated, a major aircraft company at the time, was specialized in naval patrol seaplanes and was growing a certain interest toward heavy, ground based bombers. Both kinds of aircraft required extremely long ranges, and thus the main goal of the employed engineers was that …
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 …
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 …
Good morning dear #EUROAVIAns, in this Fact Friday we talk about how humans will try to divert an asteroid! 🌑 Let’s imagine this situation: we discover that a 100 m wide asteroid is directed towards Earth and it will hit a large city. How could this thread be faced? 😱 Panic is not an option …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about Carbon-neutral flights (CO2 neutral). In recent years, due to the growing attention to climate problems, airlines are also trying to change things into greener aviation. One of the terms mostly used these days is “carbon-neutral flights”, but what does it mean? Carbon neutrality means to …
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 …
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 …