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Hydrogen-powered aircraft has first commercial order (abc.net.au)
15 points by chris1993 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I'm sure I'm not the only person thinking this. The real headline is truthful but the HN "Hydrogen-powered aircraft has first commercial order" is a little misleading because it could imply that hydrogen powered aircraft are a new thing. We've famously [0] had hydrogen powered aircraft a century ago.

And while I'm on the topic of imperfect word choice, the company name is ASML Aero? There is already an ASML so I hope that Aero attached!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_class_airship


I don't think the airships were powered by hydrogen. They had diesel-powered engines. The hydrogen was used to lift the thing.


I'm pretty sure the internal heating of the Hindenburg was hydrogen powered.




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