Author: Anela Dokso

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Piasecki Aircraft demonstrates advancement of hydrogen-powered UAMs The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has given Piasecki Aircraft Corp. (PiAC), a pioneer in advanced rotorcraft and unmanned aircraft systems technology, a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to assess the viability of hydrogen fuel cell powered urban air mobility (UAM) rotorcraft. The primary goal of the project is to determine whether it is feasible to power vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAMs), which are anticipated to be a major part of urban transportation in the future, with hydrogen fuel cells. The corporation is scheduled to start the second…

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