The government has unveiled a £250 million funding package to help realise green aerospace projects, with hydrogen featuring prominently.
Cranfield University and industry partners are among those to receive a share, with projects including DRAGONFLY, which is being delivered with Actuation Lab, will see the development of a special valve that can control the flow of super-cold liquid hydrogen for future zero-emissions aircraft.
MACH2INE, meanwhile, is being delivered with Darvick, is creating machines to test materials that can be used in hydrogen-powered aircraft, with these able to test materials at extreme temperatures and pressures, as well as under complex forces.
Elsewhere, Airbus is leading the ZEDC project which is striving to develop infrastructure for testing liquid hydrogen fuel systems and structural components to support zero-emission aircraft technologies, while Intelligent Energy is leading a project to develop a high-temperature hydrogen fuel cell system for aviation.
