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Honeywell Integrates Hydrogen Propulsion Power Source
Project Newborn proceeds to ground demonstration tests
Project Newborn hydrogen-electric propulsion system
Honeywell Aerospace and partners have integrated the hydrogen power source for their planned megawatt-class propulsion system.

Honeywell Aerospace and partners have completed the integration of the subsystems composing the hydrogen-electric propulsion system they are developing under European Union-backed Project Newborn. On September 17, the U.S.-based group reported that its engineering team in Brno, Czech Republic, has established a functional hydrogen power source capable of generating and supplying electricity for an aircraft.

Project Newborn is targeting development of a megawatt-class propulsion system for a future aircraft certified under EASA’s Part CS-23 rules. The program, funded by the EU Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, aims to support flight tests with a demonstrator aircraft in 2028.

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