Blue Spirit Rolls Out Its Prototype
On June 10, Blue Spirit Aero rolled out its full-scale hydrogen-powered Dragonfly prototype and completed the world’s first H2 refueling of a light aircraft directly from an airport station in Le Mans, France, site of the famous 24-hour endurance car race...
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240327/k10014404261000.html
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-to-take-another-shot-at-a-homegrown-airliner-eyeing-hydrogen
Just one year after the official end to the failure that was MRJ, Japan is trying to start another...
Drawing of EADS Innovation Works and Astrium Space Transportation zero emission hypersonic transport.
Source:
Warwick, Graham. "Transpacific in Two Hours, With No Emissions" Leading Edge 5/28/2010...
The E/S Orcelle, Wallenius Wilhelmsen's vision of a zero emission 10,000 vehicle RO/RO ship for the year 2025.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2005/2005-04-06-03.asp
My biggest question regarding the Lockheed Suntan program is why they bothered investigating hydrogen turbojets in the first place. The best advantage I can think of was the ability to achieve the desired speed and range with an airframe that was much lighter than anything else in its size...
central intelligence agency
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pratt & whitney
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strategic air command
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states air force
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