April 2007 — An unmanned hydrogen fuel cell powered “jet-like” UAV made history this week as it took to the skies over the hills of Bern, Switzerland. The “Hyfish” astonished its creators as it flawlessly performed vertical climbs, loops and other aerial acrobatics at speeds reaching 200 km/h. The successful maiden flight was the result of one and a half years of cooperative development between the German Air & Space Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt) and a number of international partners including Smartfish for the plane design, Druckon, Baltico, and Teknizentrum Ainet. A record performance 1kW fuel cell and hydrogen system weighing just 3kg and capable of powering the small jet was supplied by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies of Singapore: www.horizonfuelcell.com
lets have an inventory of all good engineers and evil engineers so that we can formulate equation if it is possible to save planet earth.
I’m all for jacking gas prices up as high as possible….
Only then will people start looking for alternatives to transportation. Hopefully, they choose a cleaner source so we can cut down on the nasty pollution that’s giving us all cancer. But wait, the health industry is making too much money off cancer treatment, so now they are poisoning are food, water, and air with carcinogens… NEAT0!
Unfortunately not, but there is a huge demand for engineers and I happen to be a recruitment consultant specializing in recruitments of specialists from abroad, including engineers 😉
so is iceland giving out citizenship to engineers? 😉
Wow! Where is this located?! Would love to take my girlfriend on vacation to a place with beautiful fields like these.
how bout when you just cant buy it…. cool jet
just wait until a barrel cost 200$ lol
With the crude prices over 100$ now, making hydrogen with electrolysis is not so stubit any more. And in places like Iceland (where I’m from) that have more renewable energy than we have use for and where the only none renewable energy consumed is for transportation, hydrogen cars, boats and airplanes would make our energy consumption 100% renewable rather than 70% renewable now.
Why don’t you start your own company making hydrogen from a renewable source? America is a free market. Bush doesn’t control it. The point is people don’t do it because it costs a fortune. Your company would fold. Until you stop driving a car and using oil products, shut your mouth.
Cool! What’s the name of the algae?
Gasoline? Hydrogen only comes from gasoline when your STUPID and OWN TOO MUCH STOCK IN GAS, otherwise, you can get it from tap water if your not a moron enough to listen to bush’s bullshit, bush should be jailed!
nice toy, is it liquid or compressed hydrogen powered? aka can it go more than a couple miles w/o a refill? lol
Done! There is a certian kind of algae that only needs sun light and it produces all the hydogen gas you can ask for. The gas then gets converted into more useful forms soon after. What we need now is a government smart enough to get off their asses and make it happen. The terrorist shouldn’t get any more oil money to kill us with. You can find the algae thing here on youtube!
I think this concept design is pretty cool. The only problem is finding a cheap and easy way to create hydrogen fuel without using fossil fuels. When some1 figures that out, hydrogen fuel will be everywhere
It’s a bit hard to believe that it’s “Wasserstoff” propeled, besides, I have seen a video and read some information on the designer of this aircraft, who’s from switzerland, and calls his project Smartfish, and from what I understand is pretty independent and has not collaborated with anyone about anything
Wheres the onboard video? Looks like just your run of the mill RC plane…
I can not believe it.
thats Helium that changes your voice…
hydrogen is the way of the future, clean, non-toxic, can be found everywhere…
…and it makes your voice high!
sounds like an alien space ship, cool
you know that not loud at all considereing the other planes. Gas put out way more sound than this
They are going to replace batteries, thank goodness.
jeeze! if thats the mini version and its that loud i dont want to be near the big commercial ones. if it ever gets to that point.
Ganz bestimmt kein wasserstoffbetriebenes Modellflugzeug! Das ist ein Fake!
Very nice, keep up the great work.