“AMSL Aero Gains USD3 Million Grant From Australian Government to Pioneer Liquid Hydrogen Aviation”
Australian-based, AMSL Aero, a developer of the leading hydrogen eVTOL aircraft, Vertiia, has gained USD3 million in grant funding from the Federal Government to develop and demonstrate liquid hydrogen-powered aircraft for regional and remote Australia, reports a press release.
The two-year project, called ‘Liquid Hydrogen Powered Aircraft for Regional and Remote Australia’, is worth USD7.56 million in total. This was awarded by the Australian Government Department of Industry Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Program.
AMSL is to collaborate with liquid hydrogen company Fabrum, Monash University and Deakin University to focus on the technical, regulatory and safety challenges of hydrogen-powered eVTOL aircraft in real-world environments.
The project is to address the issues of designing safe liquid hydrogen refuelling systems; testing advanced fuel measurement and power distribution during various stages of flight of Vertiia; securing evidence for the development of national regulatory pathways; and demonstrating refuelling procedures integrated with aircraft systems.
AMSL Aero CEO, Dr Adriano Di Pietro, commented, “This funding points to the Federal Government’s support for our mission to revolutionise air mobility for regional and remote Australia. The project objectives reflect our cooperative leadership across the sector and community to decarbonise aviation.”
Dr Adriano Di Pietro
The release concludes, “Vertiia is a leader in the new generation of aircraft that take off and land like a helicopter, but fly fast and smoothly like a fixed-wing aeroplane. AMSL Aero is in an elite group of top-tier global companies to fly an eVTOL in untethered horizontal flight successfully.”
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