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Article: Germany: Flying test laboratory will further the development of fuel cells for aerospace applications.
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- July 8, 2009
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Byline: manish03
Antares DLR-H2, the world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking off using only power from fuel cells, demonstrated this capability at Hamburg Airport. Antares DLR-H2 has been developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). The Antares flies with zero CO2 emissions and has a much lower noise footprint than other, comparable, motor gliders. The propulsion system for this aircraft was developed at the DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics (Institut fur Technische Thermodynamik Stuttgart) in collaboration with its project partners Lange Aviation, BASF Fuel Cells and Serenergy (Denmark). This motor ...