{"id":1504,"date":"2023-09-08T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2023-09-12T01:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:16:03","slug":"h2fly-made-worlds-first-piloted-flight-of-liquid-hydrogen-powered-electric-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"H2FLY Made World\u2019s First Piloted Flight of Liquid \u00a0Hydrogen Powered Electric Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H2FLY, the Stuttgart, Germany-based developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft, announced on 7 September that it has successfully completed the world\u2019s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1200x800.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The H2FLY team has completed four flights powered by liquid hydrogen as part of its flight test campaign, including one flight that lasted for over three hours. The flights were completed with H2FLY\u2019s piloted HY4 demonstrator aircraft, fitted with a hydrogen-electric fuel cell propulsion system and cryogenically stored liquid hydrogen that powered the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results of the test flights indicate that using liquid hydrogen in place of gaseous hydrogen will double the maximum range of the HY4 aircraft from 750 km to 1,500 km, marking a critical step towards the delivery of emissions-free, medium- and long-haul commercial flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth mentioning that H2FLY was acquired by the leading eVTOL company Joby in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The successful campaign marks a significant milestone for H2FLY, reflecting the extensive insights from the company\u2019s research efforts. Moreover, it is the culmination of Project HEAVEN, a European-government-supported consortium assembled to demonstrate the feasibility of using liquid, cryogenic hydrogen in aircraft. The consortium is led by H2FLY and includes the partners Air Liquide, Pipistrel Vertical Solutions, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, and Fundaci\u00f3n Ayesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beside project HEAVEN, the work has been funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMVD), and The University of Ulm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information please refer to: https:\/\/www.h2fly.de <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H2FLY, the Stuttgart, Germany-based developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft, announced on 7 September that it has successfully completed the world\u2019s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen. The H2FLY team has completed four flights powered by liquid hydrogen as part of its flight test campaign, including one flight that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}