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The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Could Hit the Skies Next Year

World’s first hydrogen powered helicopter

CEO John Piasecki told a recent symposium at the Vertical Flight Society that his company would be performing the world’s first human-carrying flight tests aboard edm aerotec’s CoAX-2D helicopter.

The hydrogen-powered CoAX-2D would use an 80-kW HyPoint high-temperature proton-exchange membrane (HTPEM) fuel cell, according to EVTOL.news.

Join key stakeholders: Hydrogen Aviation