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Hydrogen Aviation
Hydrogen Aviation
Destinus aims to build the first commercial hydrogen-powered aircraft that can travel at five times the speed of sound and at altitudes of more than 33 km (over 100,000 ft).
The company has been testing its prototype aircraft for the past couple of years, announcing successful test flights of its second prototype - Eiger - at the end of 2022.
"The prototypes look different from the final product because the final product has very advanced propulsion technology," Bart Van Hove, Destinus' head of advanced studies, said during this year's Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.
"It has different types of engines, turbo jets, and ramjet, all hydrogen-powered and all hydrogen-cooled. So that goes with a particular vehicle configuration as shape, as you see in our vision, of a plane that grabs a huge amount of air and there is a central duct and that splits into various engine ducts.
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