✈️ MORE on @Airbus hydrogen news:
Ground demonstrator to launch in 2021;
Flight demo in 2025;
Entry-into-service 2035
Storage tank design and integration cited as huge challenge. Hydrogen cryogenics, handling the fuel also a big issue
Hydrogen takes up 4x the space as kerosene. On the turbofan concept, that entire part in the red is reserved for fuel tank
Top engineer says hydrogen is perfectly safe for use in aviation. Cites work done to make kerosene - a flammable fuel - as comparison
Data captured during now-nixed E-Fan X project will come in useful, Airbus exec says. Electric hybrid demonstrator cancelled earlier this year euractiv.com/section/aerosp…
Top engineer says Airbus will aim to ensure there are no non-CO2 climate effects from burning hydrogen but acknowledges lots of work still ahead
Hydrogen applicable to helicopters. Exec says that development might actually come to fruition before airliners
“Batteries have their place in aviation”, in urban air mobility etc
But not relevant in large commercial aircraft, execs say
Not exact figure on how much all of this will cost but it’ll be “billions”. Obviously
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