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 …
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 …
“La felicità mi coglie sempre di sorpresa, arriva di soppiatto, inattesa e inspiegata. Credo che maturi dentro lentamente, senza disturbare, finchè un piccolo dettaglio la fa traboccare e lei rapidamente impregna il corpo e l’anima. Oppure è sempre lì, sottopelle, giusto in attesa che le si lasci un po’ di spazio.” quote from the book …
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 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. …