HYDROGEN PLANE
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLAIRSHIP owners in the 1930's would have laughed: hydrogen - the fuel of the future? Remember the Hindenburg? Plunging to the ground over the USA in a ball of fire, crushing a civil airline industry as it fell. Time was the best use imaginable for hydrogen was inflating children's balloons - one lungful made for a decent Micky Mouse impression. How times change.Not only is hydrogen being seriously considered as a clean alternative fuel for land-based combustion transport but European engineers are now developing viable civil aeroplanes fuelled by ...
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