Today’s turn its for one of that people that deserves his own Hollywood movie, meet James H. Doolittle. Born in California in 1896, Doolittle was a short kid, such thing made him being bullied by his classmates till he started boxing, turning de odds and giving him a strong personality but his first contact with…
Tag: EUROAVIA
How do airlines afford new aircraft?
One thing is for sure, planes are expensive, so how airlines afford to own such big fleets? Some companies are buying the plane but usually, companies are leasing the aircraft from leasers all over the World. This happens for two main reasons: to operate aircraft without the financial burden of buying them and to provide…
Zeppelin, a throwback to the past
Imagine you could lift from the floor just attaching yourself to some balloons, even that this sounds fantastic, something like this was in fashion during the first third of the 20th century, let me tell you about Zeppelins. Most of you could remember these flying crafts with the dark aura of the Great War or…
Post pandemic recovery of airlines
As we know, 2020 was a tough year for the travel industry, the hospitality sector is still struggling to get back on track, cruise ships are still in harbors with very few of them starting to sail and many airplanes are still grounded due to the lack of demand. In 2020 after COVID-19 struck the…
The danger of volcanic ash in air traffic
As some of you may probably know, a volcano erupted in the Canary island of La Palma, causing its airport to be closed and many planes and routes to be redirected as the ashes reach the atmosphere. But why is it dangerous? For this article, I will be analyzing from lower hazard to higher. First,…
How is an airplane recycled
What happens to an airplane after its retirement? Well, the airplane is moved to a storage site, the biggest of them all being the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson, Arizona. After the plane is moved here, usually it is kept for a few years and parts that can be used again are…
The International Space Station, ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ISS flies 400km at speeds that defy gravity. It takes only 92 minutes to make a complete circuit of…
Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher von Braun was a German aerospace engineer born on 23 March 1912 in Wirsitz. He was the second of three sons of a noble Lutheran family. From birth, he held the title of Freiherr (equivalent to Baron), his father being a civil servant and conservative politician that served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic. The family moved to Berlin in 1915,…
Rockwell XFV-12
The Rockwell XFV-12 was an American prototype of a supersonic carrier-based VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) fighter developed during the early 1970s for the U.S. Navy under the Vertical Fighter Attack-X program. Rockwell International, a Boeing predecessor company, submitted an entry featuring a Thrust Augmenter Wing (TAW) concept and was awarded a $47 million contract…
Caproni
Società de Agostini e Caproni, also known as Caproni was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Giovanni Battista “Gianni” Caproni, an Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, started the firm in 1908. From 1911, it was known as Società de Agostini e Caproni, and later Società Caproni e Comitti. Caproni was in charge of completing the first…