The hydrogen-powered aircraft will be a hybrid between a plane and a rocket.
The Switzerland-based aerospace startup, Destinus SA, wants to build a hydrogen-powered hyperplane to address the need for rapid and clean transportation. Destinus moved a step closer to realizing its dream after it raised 26.8 million Swiss francs in a seed funding round, a company press release said.
While the automotive industry is set to move to battery-powered electrification to address carbon emissions, the airline industry's switch will not be that easy. Battery-powered flights, although in trials and development, have huge hurdles to cross with regards to their endurance and carrying capacities. While battery-powered Air Taxis might solve the problems ofThe greatest advantage of using hydrogen as a source of energy is that it gives off zero carbon emissions.
The company is founded by Mikhail Kokorich, a serial entrepreneur with engineering, technical and organizational skills. The company currently has a team of over 50 engineers and managers who have previously worked at Arianespace, Boeing, Airbus, Dassault, Rolls-Royce, and other major aerospace companies. It plans to increase its team size to 100 this year to step up its research and development efforts and initiate flight testing.
In the short duration of its existence, the company has already designed unique subsystems such as an active cooling system for its hyperplane and patented it as well, the press release claims. The concept has been backed by various venture funds from across the globe and the company wants to use this funding to develop its hydrogenThe chairman of the company's Advisory Board is the former minister of Economics and Technology, and the vice-chancellor of Germany, Philipp Rösler.
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