ZeroAvia: Ground Testing
"One of those days that engineers wait for!"
This video shows ZeroAvias Dornier 228 on the verge of being the largest aircraft ever flown with a hydrogen-electric powertrain - showing the process of commissioning, followed by ground testing, followed by test flight, followed by... zero-emission aviation.
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So today is one of those days that engineers are waiting for. So we have spent several weeks in completing the installation of the hydrogen powertrain on the Dornier 228. After a huge amount of effort, this is the first outside test that we're going to start doing. So we've started commissioning on the Dornier 228, which means that we're doing checks on all the individual systems that we've modified on the airplane.
This is going to be the biggest aircraft ever flown with hydrogen electrical power plant in the history of aviation. We are in the first part of the testing phase, so there is a commissioning phase where we test every single equipment separately. Then there will be a ground test phase where the whole system has to perform in order to be able to release the utilization of this aircraft for flights. And the third phase, of course, is the flight testing.
As an engineer, you have a dream. You realize your dream by depicting it in a drawing. You release a drawing hoping that the drawing will produce a nice piece of engineering material. You install this piece of engineering material on an aircraft, and you expect that the performance and the function of what you have dreamt are there.
And this is the moment of verification. It's the start of that ground testing where we prepare the airplane for the first flight, which will be the milestone flight for the Dornier 228 with our zero emission powertrain. It's a special day, so one of those days you can wait for.
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