A second hydrogen-powered regional airliner has just made its debut flight. Universal Hydrogen successfully tested its hydrogen-powered propulsion system for the first time on Thursday. The company’s De Havilland Dash 8-300 turboprop testbed—retrofitted with a hydrogen fuel cell in one of its nacelles and nicknamed "Lightning McClean"—took off from Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, at 8:41 a.m. local time and flew for 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 feet.
The historic flight test occurred just six weeks after rival hydrogen propulsion system ZeroAvia achieved the first flight of its hydrogen-powered Dornier 228 aircraft testbed at Cotswold Airport in the UK, making it the first company to fly a regional airliner powered by hydrogen fuels.
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