Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about human tourism, specifically on Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos’ company “Blue Origin”. Blue Origin is a private aerospace company founded in 2000 with the mission to “Increase access to space through reusable rockets”. Reusability is the key word, since by making reusable rockets 🚀, flight costs decrease …
Try for a moment to imagine how the world would be like if it was possible to clone human beings. Certainly, it would solve many problems but it could certainly create others, mostly from an ethical point of view. The island is a 2005 movie, set in a dangerously dystopian 2019 during which the Earth …
The Stipa Caproni was an experimental aircraft built by Luigi Stipa in the early ‘30s as a proof of his ducted propeller principle, which states that enclosing a propeller in a duct can increase its performances and efficiency, plus it may exploit the heat emitted by the combustion engine to achieve a further (although limited) …
Good morning EUROAVIAns!The applications for the new EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna Local Board are open. Got any doubts?Read our article to know the available positions in the Board and their responsabilities, and to find out about the application process. Being part of the Local Board will allow you not only to form connections with aerospace companies and students …
Good afternoon EUROAVIAns! We have good news coming your way that is sure to brighten this Tuesday ✨.If you are interested in drones, this event is for you! On the 18th of June you will have the chance to fly a real drone at Villafranca airfield, following a brief introductory course on drone flight dynamics …
Dear EUROAVIAns,how are you doing? We know… the exams are approaching quite fast, but we would like to cheer you up before the beginning of the exam session. Therefore, we’d like to deliver issue n°3 of our Local Magazine. We hope you will like it and that you will use it as a great study break. Bring it with you under your beach umbrella, …
Good morning EUROAVIAns!The applications for the new EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna Local Board opens tomorrow, the 10th of May at 09:00 CEST. Got any doubts?Read our article to know the available positions in the Board and their responsabilities, and to find out about the application process. Being part of the Local Board will allow you not only to …
Good morning dear Euroavians,today we talk about the unit conversion error that made NASA lose a 327 million dollar mission to Mars. Have you ever struggled on a physics exercise only to realise at the end that the force was given in pounds instead of in newtons? Well, that’s not so dissimilar to what happened …
Flight is a film about an expert pilot, William “Whip” Whitaker and an accident that occurred. Thankfully, the pilot managed to land in a field saving the most of the passengers’ lives. William, played by Denzel Washington, is an alcoholic and drinks one too many the night before the accident. In the following morning, as …
Good evening EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we will talk about Dyson spheres! What is a Dyson sphere? First of all, it’s not some kind of toy for your home pet, neither is it some peculiar ball! The concept of a Dyson sphere was developed in 1960 by Freeman Dyson, a British-American mathematician interested in astrophysics. …
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke is a massive compendium that brings a total of 116 short science fiction stories written by Arthur C. Clarke throughout his life together. Variety is the keyword for this collection; in fact, the stories’ original publication dates range from 1937 to 1999 and their length is also rather …