(23 Feb 2022)
Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with
CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran
Aircraft Engines, to collaborate on a hydrogen demonstration
programme that is expected to take flight around the middle of this decade.
The programme’s objective is to ground and flight
test a direct combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen, in preparation
for entry-into-service of a zero-emission aircraft by 2035.
The
demonstration will use an A380 flying testbed equipped with liquid
hydrogen tanks prepared at Airbus facilities in France and
Germany.
Airbus will also define the hydrogen…