Flying on hydrogen

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Thomas Bradley and Reid Thomas go through the procedure of starting up the Georgia Tech fuel cell aircraft during a test flight at the Atlanta Dragway. Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek
Thomas Bradley and Reid Thomas go through the procedure of starting up the Georgia Tech fuel cell aircraft during a test flight at the Atlanta Dragway. Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen.


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