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Boeing to fly fuel cell powered airplane
I’m in an airport right now, waiting for my plane to get me home. So I looked for green aviation news and found out this one:
For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing flew a manned fuel cell powered vehicle. Three test flights took place in February and March 2008 at the airfield [...]
Hybrid Electric Aircraft to Take Off by 2009
Falx Air Vehicles, from Staffordshire, UK, will release commercially a tilt-rotor hybrid airplane by the end of 2009. The tilt-rotor concept is present in the aviation since the 1950’s, but there haven’t been any breakthroughs in this area yet. Still, Falx puts a 100hp combustion engine on it, a powerful solar array, and an electric [...]
