Today we will continue to tell the story of the logos of our local groups. Forlì-Bologna In Greek mythology, Icarus, Daedalus’ son, died while trying to escape from Cretan Labyrinth by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. The idea of aviation touched on deep-seated concerns and emotions in the early…
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Fun with Logos! (1)
Have you ever wonder what are the local group’s logos inspired on? In this series of articles, you’ll learn a bit about the history of the logo of some local groups and what do they represent. Are you curious? Oostende Oostende’s logo was recently changed, and it is inspired on the town and school where…
A gun with a plane
If you ask any US veteran how angels sound like, the answer would look more like a BRTTTT!!! than any Tik-Tok trending music. And that’s what you get when you put wings around a car-like sized gatling cannon. That’s what Fairchild Republic had in mind when the A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog for the friends) was…
Updated avionics
Nowadays, avionics has evolved a lot since the beginning of aviation and is trying to keep up with the technology around us, although it is subjected to much stricter regulations. World War I brought an urgent need for communications. Voice communications from ground to air and from aircraft to aircraft were established. Also, more instruments…
Did you know? Our fundation
You may know our association has over 60 years of existence, more than Airbus and the European Space Agency (ESA), but do you know how EUROAVIA was founded? The idea of EUROAVIA was born in 1956 between some students in Aachen, who witnessed the gap between the Aerospace Industry, the students and the bigger economic…
Electric aviation is coming
With the European Union setting the objective to have climate neutrality with air transport by 2050, an alliance with aerospace companies have been launched to develop zero-emission aircrafts. In particular, the aerospace sector will prepare for the introduction of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircrafts. Airbus, the biggest aeronautical company in Europe, has already started the effort…
The MIG-21
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG-21 is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the former Soviet Union. Approximately sixty countries across four continents have flown the MIG-21, and it still serves many nations six decades after its maiden flight. It made records, becoming the most-produced supersonic jet aircraft in aviation history, the…
The real story behind Top Gun
It is August 1981, and the United States Navy’s Sixth Fleet is conducting real fire exercises in the Gulf of Sirte because some years before, in 1973, Muammar al-Gaddafi had claimed this sea zone as a Libyan territory with the opposition of the US and most of the European countries in a movement that could…
Sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible!
It is March 27th, 1999 the quiet nightfall in the Serbian countryside near Buđanovci gets broken by the thunderous screech of the NATO aircrafts descending from the North, in fact, those nights in the former Yugoslavian Federal Republic are everything except quiet: the NATO has been bombing the country for three days. Covered by their…
The Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis I
On mid-March 2022, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) with the Orion spacecraft was first seen by the public on its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launcher will be subjected to a series of tests before its maiden flight in May 2022. The Space Launch System is the new super heavy-lift…