Japan Plans New Airliner Project, Eyes Hydrogen

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Japan's SpaceJet program was scrapped in February 2023 after years of cost overruns and questions over market viability.

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Japan is revisiting plans to develop its own airliner, this time powered by hydrogen. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has outlined plans to launch a new program with a team of Japanese aerospace companies that would see an airliner rolled out by 2035. Kazuchika Iwata, Japan's...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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