Hydrogen fueled aircraft
There’s a lot of talk in the media these days about aircraft being powered by hydrogen in the future, and some practical small scale development is apparently underway. I’m kinda surprised there seems to be no discussion about it on these forums. Perhaps you all - like me - consider it too mad, and a load of window dressing by the airlines and manufacturers. The few formal documents I’ve found online talk about the Hindenburg effect, and the need to make sure the tanks on board are ‘durable’! Well, if they really think they can engineer a storage tank that will never break open on impact, in an otherwise survivable accident, I’m highly skeptical. Too many people have died in post crash fuel fires with Jet A1, yet now they want us to believe liquid hydrogen can be safely stored - a fuel with a hundred times the explosive flammability of Jet A1.
And then there’s the whole re-fueling infrastructure and ramp safety issue too.
I believe it’s a total non runner.
What do you think?