Britain's Rolls-Royce said it has successfully run an aircraft engine on hydrogen, a world aviation first that marks a major step towards proving the gas could be key to decarbonising air travel.
A Rolls-Royce logo is seen at the company's aerospace engineering and development site in Bristol, Britain, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photosaid it has successfully run an aircraft engine on hydrogen, a world aviation first that marks a major step towards proving the gas could be key to decarbonising air travel.
They said they were already planning a second set of tests, with a longer-term ambition to carry out flight tests. It said in February it planned to fit a specially adapted version of a current generation engine near the back of an A380 superjumbo test plane. A switch to hydrogen-powered engines would require a complete redesign of airframes and infrastructure at airports.are so massive it would take more than one generation of aircraft to get there.
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