Aviation officials imagine planes flown by hydrogen power

Capt. Jim Muldoon, an Air Force liaison to the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive Research Development and Engine Center, said hybrid engines are used in military Humvees, and have been field tested in aircraft and other Army vehicles.

The world’s two largest commercial aircraft makers, Airbus S.A.S and the Boeing Co. are “looking at fuel cells right now,” said Charles Myers, sales director with Nuvera Fuel Cells, an energy technology company based in Cambridge, Mass.

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