Gatwick plots course for hydrogen flight
London Gatwick is working with Airbus, Easyjet and Air Products to develop the airport’s hydrogen infrastructure, with a particular focus on Gatwick’s short and medium haul operations.
According to the partners, the project will cover liquid hydrogen supply and storage at the airport, refuelling and ground handling of hydrogen aircraft, as well as the exploration of shorter-term opportunities for using hydrogen at Gatwick. The airport is the biggest operating base for Easyjet, one of the UK’s largest short and medium haul airlines. As early hydrogen aircraft are likely to operate across shorter routes, the partners believe Gatwick is the ‘ideal testbed’ for R&D into critical support infrastructure for hydrogen flight.
Read more in The Engineer here.