The last time I had talked about the unveiling of the Boeing Phantom Eye was in July 2010. Since then the military has been very quite about the progress, until now. The Phantom Eye is a high-altitude long endurance (HALE) vehicle that can fly at 65,000 feet and stay aloft for 4 days carrying surveillance [...]
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Okay, so this story isn’t as exciting as one about a new hydrogen car prototype or a hydrogen-powered airplane but it is significant nonetheless. DLR and Airbus have designed a hydrogen-powered nose wheel for a large aircraft for the purpose of taxiing around the Hamburg, Germany airport. The DLR A320 ATRA (Advanced Technology Research Aircraft) [...]
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I’ve talked several times in the past about using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as clean, zero emissions fuel for all kinds of vehicles including cars, jetpacks, planes, trains and even spacecraft. A little earlier this year another vehicle came onto the scene which is a hydrogen peroxide powered personal helicopter. The Avimech Dragonfly DF1 weighs just [...]
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On August 16, 2010 I had talked about the Global Observer UAV which was built by AeroVironment and being tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Global Observer UAV is a hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is powered by both batteries and liquid hydrogen via a small internal combustion engine. The purpose [...]
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In March 2010 I had talked about the Phantom Eye HALE (high altitude long endurance) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Boeing that was getting ready to take to the skies. Now, Boeing has unveiled its hydrogen-powered aircraft. Due to a rapid prototyping method this behemoth of a UAV with its 150-foot wingspan will demonstrate [...]
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Architect Vincent Callebaut likes to dream about the future. And when he does so he thinks about green architectural and technological solutions that will deal with global warming, greenhouse gases and the rise of ocean and sea levels. This Hydrogenase Project is based upon the futuristic thinking that one day there will be bio-hydrogen airships [...]
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In April 2008, I talked about Boeing putting the first manned fuel cell powered aircraft into flight. And there have been many times in the past 4 years (yes, the blog is that old), that I’ve talked about hydrogen powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A new liquid hydrogen-powered UAV which is also a high altitude [...]
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This is a little futuristic and still in the concept phase but I’d like to talk about it since it ranks high on my “coolness” gauge. A British design company called Seymourpowell was commissioned by Samsung Construction and Trading (C&T) to come up with a futuristic design for hydrogen powered air travel. The Seymourpowell Aircruise [...]
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The Italians and European Union are preparing a light 2-seat airplane for takeoff powered by hydrogen fuel cell and lithium ion batteries. I’ve talked about manned hydrogen fuel cell airplanes before, with and without the aid of lithium ion batteries. The Rapid 200-FC hydrogen fuel cell manned airplane has an electric 40 kW propeller and [...]
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This is being reported as the world’s first mini RC fuel cell helicopter to take flight, but that is debatable since in June 2008 I had previously talked about the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin, Germany creating an unmanned remote control mini helicopter powered by fuel cell. But, nonetheless, the United [...]
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