Monday, 25 January 2021
Protium Green Solutions, the UK‐based green hydrogen energy services company, has secured a significant grant for Project HEART from the UK Government as part of the latest Future Flight Challenge in partnership with Blue Bear Systems and ZeroAvia. Blue Bear Systems is the leading supplier of innovation and products in unmanned systems, and ZeroAvia is a US-based innovator and leader of decarbonizing commercial aviation. Other consortium members include Britten-Norman, LoganAir, Inmarsat, Highlands & Islands Airport, Weston Williams & Partners, Fleetondemand and Edinburgh Napier University. Courtesy of ZeroAvia
The grant has been awarded as part of the UK Government’s Future Flight program, funded by UK Research and Innovation as part of the Government’s modern industrial strategy, which invites businesses and innovators to take part in or source partners for revolutionizing aviation as part of a £125 million challenge. The project commenced in De
The Future Flight Challenge itself is a government initiative supporting the development of new technologies in the UK, including freight-carrying drones, urban air vehicles, and hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
It is funded by £125 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which is, in turn, expected to be matched by up to £175 million from industry.
The Airspace of the Future project says it will work to integrate quieter, more efficient, and less polluting aircraft within the rest of the transport infrastructure, ensuring aircraft can fly to and from a cost-effective network of small operating bases.
The group will also develop the supporting ground infrastructure, regulation and control systems required to use these new aircraft practically and safely.
Boeing Co has unveiled plans to deliver commercial aircraft capable of using 100% biofuel by 2030. Using existing technologies under current regulations, it can only use biofuel blends of up to 50%, EURACTIV’s media partner, edie.net, reports.
Boeing is striving to halve emissions by 2050 and sees biofuels playing a key role in meeting the target
In a statement released late last week, the US-based plane manufacturer said that changes will need to happen across the fields of jet system engineering and global regulation for the new innovation vision to be realised.
On the former, there are currently no jet systems capable of being fuelled by 100% biofuel that are both large enough to support a commercial aircraft and cost-competitive with traditional systems. On the latter, current international fuel specifications permit blends of up to 50% biofuel, with the rest being conventional, fossil-based jet fuel.
UK: Protium secures funding through the Future Flight Challenge
25 Jan 2021
Protium has partnered with Blue Bear Systems and ZeroAvia to deliver a major new project.
Grant will enable the consortium to complete the feasibility and design works for future deployment of passenger planes powered entirely from green hydrogen.
The hydrogen will be produced entirely from renewable resources and will provide a pathway to zero emission airport operations.
Protium Green Solutions, the UK-based green hydrogen energy services company, has secured a significant grant for
Project HEART from the
Future Flight Challenge in partnership with
Blue Bear Systems and
ZeroAvia. Blue Bear Systems is the leading supplier of innovation and products in unmanned systems, and ZeroAvia is a US-based innovator and leader of decarbonising commercial aviation. Other consortium members include Britten-Norman, LoganAir, Inmarsat, Highlands & Islands Airport, Weston Williams & Partners, Fleetondemand and
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22 January 2021 16:30
AGS Airports, which owns and manages Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports, is to lead a consortium that will develop and trial what will be the UK’s first national distribution network to use drones to transport essential medicines, blood, organs and other medical supplies throughout Scotland.
The AGS led consortium, which brings together 14 organisations including the University of Strathclyde, and leading air traffic control provider NATS, successfully secured £1.5 million from the UK Industrial Strategy Future Flight Challenge Fund to demonstrate how autonomous drone technology can enhance access to essential medical supplies, particularly in rural parts of Scotland.
The CAELUS (Care & Equity – Healthcare Logistics UAS Scotland) project started on 1 December and will involve live drone flight trials. In addition to developing the ground infrastructure needed to recharge the drones and the systems to control them while flying, a key