KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has partnered with AeroDelft, a student team at Delft University of Technology, to explore hydrogen-powered aviation.
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In order to collaboratively investigate liquid hydrogen (LH2) production, storage, and refuelling at airports, ZeroAvia and Absolut Hydrogen formed a cooperation.
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has established a research facility in the province of Kiangsu on China’s east coast. The facility will be located in the city of Sucou in the Yangzi River delta, where Airbus will focus on research in the areas of hydrogen and alternative fuels.
H2FLY, a Stuttgart-based manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell systems for aeroplanes, has successfully completed liquid hydrogen on-ground filling tests with its HY4 aircraft’s newly built liquid hydrogen tank.
A hydrogen-powered passenger plane being developed by the Swiss start-up Destinus will cut the current 20-hour flight duration between Europe and Australia to just over four hours.
As part of a deal to establish zero-emission services in the nation’s northeast, Swedish airline Braathens Regional Airlines (BRA) will provide turboprop aircraft to ZeroAvia for conversion to hydrogen fuel cell power.
The largest producer of hydrogen in the world and a pioneer in energy transition initiatives, Air Products (APD), recently announced that it had been awarded a number of supply contracts worth more than $130 million by NASA to provide liquid hydrogen for various NASA locations, including the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and other NASA facilities.
Destinus has been given funding to advance research and development for supersonic flight using hydrogen as fuel by the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial (CDTI) programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science.
Spanish aviation engine maker ITP Aero is heading a national consortium to test and produce the first domestic hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft engine.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (Clean Aviation JU) and the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (Clean Hydrogen JU) to form a strategic partnership for research and innovation in hydrogen-powered flight.
