Hi! great video! Let me just clarify some informations (with some insider info): the H2 Burn concept is at the moment on standby in terms of development and so is the BWB concept. For the time being Airbus focuses on Hypower (the name of the fuel cell program) and its demonstrator the Cryoprop (its the fuel cell powered turboprop concept). Reason for that is that there are still a lot of issues regarding H2 Burn while H2 FC (Fuel Cell) is lot more promising (Airbus has reached 1.2MW in June 2023 and will start testing Hypower to power A330's APU with full sized test of the engine planned for 2026 ). It is more than likely that Airbus drop the H2 Burn, which is at the moment pretty much the case even though it is still labelled as being on "standby". For the replacement of the A320NEO Airbus is looking towards a stretched version of the A220. However the A220 platform wouldn't allow the open fan (RISE by Safran/CFM) to fit as it is twice as wide as the Leap. For that reason a version of the RISE engine is currently being thought about except it won't be an open fan (so basically keeping the 3 air flows concept but with a nacelle containing the outer one so closer to a turbofan like the Leap) and will be able to fit on the A220. The open fan RISE is actually, at the moment, more adequate to the format of the TTBW of Boeing (with the laminar wings concept) but we will have to see where this goes. To come back to H2 powered aircrafts it more than likely that in the medium and short term (by 2035 and onwards to 2050) we will only see turboprop sized fuel cells powered aircrafts with maybe the introduction of hybrid concept with batteries or (less likely) with H2 Burn. The thing is H2 Burn sounds good but in practice it is a mess (if I vulgarize it to the max) and so it is a technology that will need decades to mature so definitely post 2045. There you go! Keep going your good work! Cheers from France.
Hi! great video! Let me just clarify some informations (with some insider info): the H2 Burn concept is at the moment on standby in terms of development and so is the BWB concept. For the time being Airbus focuses on Hypower (the name of the fuel cell program) and its demonstrator the Cryoprop (its the fuel cell powered turboprop concept). Reason for that is that there are still a lot of issues regarding H2 Burn while H2 FC (Fuel Cell) is lot more promising (Airbus has reached 1.2MW in June 2023 and will start testing Hypower to power A330's APU with full sized test of the engine planned for 2026 ). It is more than likely that Airbus drop the H2 Burn, which is at the moment pretty much the case even though it is still labelled as being on "standby". For the replacement of the A320NEO Airbus is looking towards a stretched version of the A220. However the A220 platform wouldn't allow the open fan (RISE by Safran/CFM) to fit as it is twice as wide as the Leap. For that reason a version of the RISE engine is currently being thought about except it won't be an open fan (so basically keeping the 3 air flows concept but with a nacelle containing the outer one so closer to a turbofan like the Leap) and will be able to fit on the A220. The open fan RISE is actually, at the moment, more adequate to the format of the TTBW of Boeing (with the laminar wings concept) but we will have to see where this goes. To come back to H2 powered aircrafts it more than likely that in the medium and short term (by 2035 and onwards to 2050) we will only see turboprop sized fuel cells powered aircrafts with maybe the introduction of hybrid concept with batteries or (less likely) with H2 Burn. The thing is H2 Burn sounds good but in practice it is a mess (if I vulgarize it to the max) and so it is a technology that will need decades to mature so definitely post 2045. There you go! Keep going your good work! Cheers from France.
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