Airbus | Blue Condor Demonstrator @airbus | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
This demonstrator is taking a modified glider up to 33,000 feet – an extreme altitude for an aircraft that normally cruises below 10,000 feet – to analyse hydrogen combustion’s impact on contrail properties. The result of this analysis will provide critical information on aviation’s non-CO2 emissions, including contrails and NOx, in advance of the ZEROe demonstrator flight testing.
More info: airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-07-airbus-to-take-up-the-hydrogen-contrail-characterisation-challenge