Good morning EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about one of the nototious physical pehonema: the Venturi effect. The Venturi effect is a physical principle wherein a fluid, flowing inside a pipe, increases or decreases its static pressure according to its velocity. This property was discovered by Giovanni Battista Venturi at the end of the …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk innovative aircraft solutions. The aerospace giant Airbus has revealed three concepts of zero-carbon emission commercial aircrafts that are planned to be put into service by 2035. Their main purpose is to reduce environmental pollution, since airplanes are one of the biggest polluters on the globe. These concepts …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope that is planned to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s flagship astrophysics mission. When launched, in March 2021, Webb will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about Cassini and its extraordinary mission. The Cassini mission began on the 15th October, 1997, when the 2.5 ton spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral in the US. A joint venture from NASA, ESA, and ASI, the Cassini mission was designed to reach the outer Solar System …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about the SR-71, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever made, usually also referred to as Blackbird due to its characteristic colour. During its missions, the SR-71 operated at speeds and altitudes so high, that the standard evasive action in the case a surface-to-air missile launch was …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we retrace the history about one of the bravest man of aviation: Chuck Yeager. Late 40s, Muroc Army Air Field, CA.With WWII over, Army Air Force desert station was destined to become a proving ground for aircraft and a testing site for experimental airplanes. Here, some of the first …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk the British chemist Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994). At the age of 10 she started to display her interest in crystals and she was encouraged to pursue this passion, especially by her mother. Sent to England for her education, Dorothy fought to study science along with the …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about one of the most amazing animal phenomena from a mathematical point of view: the flight of bees. The physics behind the way bees fly has always been a mystery and a subject of different studies. Until 1990, scientists thought that their wings worked in a similar …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about our lovely moon. The Moon has been our natural satellite for the past 4.5 billion years, yet we got to know what’s on its other side only recently, with the advent of the space exploration era. But how did a whole 19 million square kilometres elude …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about the history of stellar classification and the women who developed it. In 1901, in Harvard, the scientist Edward Charles Pickering assembled a team of women to map and classify the different types of stars. The leader of the team was the astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, who …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,we are excited to present Fact Friday, a new section in which, once a week, we’ll talk about the latest in technology, scientific state-of-the-art and new phenomena in physics!We hope you enjoy it! The beautiful vortices that you see detaching from the wingtips are, in Italian, usually referred to as the “trecce di …