AeroDelft, a student-run team of engineers at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, has partnered with Airbus on its work to build hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Airbus will collaborate with AeroDelft on the development of AeroDelft’s Phoenix, a hydrogen-powered, fixed-wing aircraft that the student team aims to produce by 2025. The team has already built and flown a remotely piloted Phoenix prototype, a 1:3 scale model of its aircraft that is powered by electric batteries. Now it is working on the larger Phoenix Full Scale, a crewed, two-seat aircraft that will run on liquid hydrogen.
Meanwhile, Airbus is focusing on its own hydrogen propulsion project. The European aerospace company is developing three potential concepts for a hydrogen-powered, zero-emission commercial airliner called ZeroE, which it aims to bring to market in 2035. All three ZeroE concepts are…
AeroDelft Partners with Airbus to Develop Hydrogen-powered Aircraft
