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Potential timelines for high potential technologies that deliver fuel burn and aerodynamic performance improvements as well as airframe weight reductions.
A vision for the future of liquid hydrogen enabled airports and airline operations, which is essential to realising zero-carbon emission commercial flight.
The 13 technology bricks required to enable hydrogen-powered flight including a technology roadmap for each brick, along with major findings and integration steps.
Manufacturing challenges and opportunities across the six FlyZero hydrogen technology bricks, with a focus on the challenges around tanks, light weighting of aerostructures and combustor manufacture.
How culture, technology and tools can reduce the time to market for hydrogen-powered aircraft and their components.
Key new materials technologies including high temperature superconducting materials and next generation semiconductors and the evolution of existing ones, such as magnetic materials and carbon fibre reinforced polymer technology.
The potential timelines for the technologies required to make electrical propulsion viable for zero emission flight.
Timescales for the technologies required for zero-carbon emission propulsion covering the gas turbine, gas turbine combustor and thrust devices.
The development of cabin sector practices, new products and technologies to target sustainability issues and support UK leadership in developing greener interiors.
The future work needed from a sustainability perspective to bring the FlyZero vision to reality, not only through eliminating CO2, but also addressing non-CO2 emissions and material impacts.
The potential development timelines for proton exchange membrane or polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells for aviation applications.
The potential timelines for the technologies required to support liquid hydrogen as the fuel of the future for commercial aircraft.
The heat exchanger technologies to enable zero-carbon emission liquid hydrogen powered flight in the 2030s.