Airbus's chief technology officer, Grazia Vittadini, asked rhetorically, during a briefing about the new plans. Then there's a 100-passenger airplane which uses a turboprop engine powered by hydrogen combustion in modified gas-turbine engines. Looking like something out of Star Trek, Airbus's blended-wing hydrogen airplane could carry up to 200 passengers. True, ongoing efforts with smaller aircraft and drones using hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells are plentiful. "This is going to create a massive change in the energy and aviation ecosystem," says Airbus's Glenn Llewellyn.

Source: CNN October 03, 2020 08:26 UTC