A growing assortment of startups are exploring smaller-scale hydrogen projects with hopes to scale up over time to eventually meet the needs of the mass market.
Sustainable flight will require businesses that might otherwise have specialized in discrete aerospace tasks to also get involved in nontraditional areas.
Panelists speaking during the UK ATI annual conference were optimistic that hydrogen fuel cell technology could be scaled up to power regional airliners.
A handful of startups are betting that more efficient electric and hybrid propulsion will open up new markets around the world for water-based aviation.
Airbus UpNext and Toshiba will collaborate on the development of superconducting technologies for the propulsion of Airbus’ future hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Tests of a liquid hydrogen fuel system by MTU Aero Engines validate that a defined mass flow of preconditioned hydrogen can be fed safely into a fuel cell.
The clear gulf dividing Europe and North America over the level and intensity of hydrogen propulsion research appears to be of growing concern to Airbus.
The advancement of hydrogen and electric propulsion research at Royal NLR comes as several Netherlands-based companies are designing new-generation aircraft.
