Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"For the foreseeable future, large passenger aircraft will continue to fly using conventional propulsion. One of the major challenges for the coming decades, however, is bringing electromobility to the aviation industry and making the air transport system of the future carbon dioxide neutral. Our goal is to further improve the fuel cell power train and, in the long term, use it on regional aircraft with up to 19 passengers."

Source: André Thess, Head of the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, on the first flight of a hydrogen-powered four-place airplane in Germany.

FMI: www.dlr.de/dlr/en