Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we’d like to introduce you to the oldest trophy in international sport: the America’s Cup. The most famous regatta in the world dates back to 1851, when a syndicate of businessmen from New York sailed the schooner “America” across the Atlantic Ocean for the World’s Fair in England. The …
Dear EUROVIAns,we hope that you were able to spend a peaceful Christmas with your loved ones and that your exam session went great. Being said that, we are happy to share with you the second issue of our local magazine, which completes the December edition. You will find a new interesting interview, the latest news …
Good morning EUROAVIAns, in today’s fact friday we talk about the first helicopter to ever fly on another planet: Ingenuity! Ingenuity is a technological demonstration part of the Mars2020 mission that successfully landed on Mars on the 18th of February. Designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it will attempt the first flight in the spring of 2021. The average …
EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna celebrates its 2nd birthday today! These past two years haven’t been easygoing, but even with life throwing challenges left and right, we managed to pull through and we’ve come a long way. Now, we look ahead to a bright, promising, future filled with new activities, events, friends and fun! To this end, we’d …
Dear EUROAVIAns,the sweetest time of the year has finally come, but we couldn’t wish you a Merry Christmas with a proper gift. So, we want to share with you our latest project: The EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna Magazine. It has been a very demanding yet amazing work, a result of choral effort carried out by the Local …
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality is a book on physics and cosmology published in 2003 by Brian Greene. Greene is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, string theorist and scientific speaker. In this book, some of the most important physical experiments and discoveries of the last century are described, …
Dear Euroavians,if this year has been a bit troublesome and you want to express some wishes for the upcoming one, why not do that with the last meteor shower of 2020? In today Fact Friday we talk about the Geminids and the Ursids. A meteor shower consists of a stream of particles of variable sizes …
Good morning EUROAVIAns!This Weekend Review is about “The Imitation Game” by Morten Tyldum. This film is about the true story of Alan Turing, an English mathematician and cryptanalyst, who during the Second World War was able to decipher the German messages created by the Enigma machine. The movie concerned both Turing’s private life and his extraordinary project. When …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today Fact Friday we talk about composite materials. Have you ever wondered why they are of particular interest in many structural applications? That’s because composites are materials usually constituted by two heterogeneous materials (or substances), meaning that even after their mixing, the original substances can be physically distinguished. This way, their mechanical …
15 December 2020 | 18:00 Good morning EUROAVIAn,the time to reveal our fifth and final online conference for this semester has finally come! This time we will hold a Conference Call on Orbital Transportation in collaboration with D-Orbit. The conference will be a behind the scenes talk about the first orbital transportation mission of ION …
“The Martian” is a science fiction film set on Mars in the year 2035. When the protagonist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is exploring the planet with his crew, a huge dust storm forces an emergency evacuation. But Mark is struck by debris during the storm and can’t take off with his colleagues and is presumed …