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AeroDelft Partners with Airbus to Develop Hydrogen-powered Aircraft
AeroDelft, a student-run team of engineers at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, is working with Airbus to accelerate the development of zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft.
AeroDelft's remotely piloted Phoenix PT, a 1:3 scale prototype of its Phoenix Full Scale aircraft, is pictured in flight.
AeroDelft's remotely piloted Phoenix PT, a 1:3 scale prototype of its Phoenix Full Scale aircraft, is pictured in flight. The student team is working to develop a hydrogen powertrain for the two-seat Phoenix Full Scale. (Photo: AeroDelft)

AeroDelft, a student-run team of engineers at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, has partnered with Airbus on its work to build hydrogen-powered aircraft.

Airbus will collaborate with AeroDelft on the development of AeroDelft’s Phoenix, a hydrogen-powered, fixed-wing aircraft that the student team aims to produce by 2025. The team has already built and flown a remotely piloted Phoenix prototype, a 1:3 scale model of its aircraft that is powered by electric batteries. Now it is working on the larger Phoenix Full Scale, a crewed, two-seat aircraft that will run on liquid hydrogen. 

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