Regional aircraft concept with fuel cells

Regional aircraft concept with fuel cells
Since the be­gin­ning of 2020, 45 sci­en­tists from 20 DLR in­sti­tutes have been work­ing to­geth­er on the EX­ACT project (Ex­plo­ration of Elec­tric Air­craft Con­cepts and Tech­nolo­gies) to de­vel­op new tech­nol­o­gy com­po­nents for a cli­mate-friend­ly com­mer­cial air­craft. Here you can see the 70-pas­sen­ger Fu­el Cell Elec­tric Re­gion­al Air­craft 'D70-FC10' con­cept with 10 fu­el cells and propul­sion units in the 'pods' un­der the wings. Hy­dro­gen is sup­plied cen­tral­ly via two hy­dro­gen tanks in the rear of the fuse­lage. The air­craft has a range of just un­der 2000 kilo­me­tres.