{"id":25214,"date":"2023-03-27T22:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25214"},"modified":"2023-03-27T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:21:57","slug":"hartzell-propeller-boosts-green-flying-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/ohio\/hartzell-propeller-boosts-green-flying-technology\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Hartzell Propeller Boosts Green Flying Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Universal Hydrogen\u2019s De Havilland Dash 8 hydrogen fuel\ncell-powered testbed first flew earlier this month, its powertrain included a\nprop designed and tested for the experimental aircraft by Hartzell Propeller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 91-inch diameter five-blade swept airfoil carbon fiber\npropeller utilized derivative blades, hub and retention components from an\nexisting 14 CFR Part 35 certified propeller. The specially designed Hartzell\nprop is smaller than the standard Dash 8 prop, but provided thrust to keep the\naircraft airborne when the other jet fuel powered turbine engine was throttled\nback during first flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project with Universal Hydrogen is one of many\nprograms where Hartzell Propeller is working with and supporting advanced air\nmobility manufacturers. Hartzell Propeller has been around for over a hundred\nyears, and carbon-free flight can power our next century,\u201d said Hartzell\nPropeller President JJ Frigge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working with this team for almost two years as\nwe step up our investments working on future new aircraft design opportunities.\nHartzell Propeller is pleased to be a part of this historic first flight of a\nhydrogen fuel cell-powered regional airliner,\u201d Frigge added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-2023-03-27T175159.692.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25216\" width=\"322\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-2023-03-27T175159.692.png 925w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-2023-03-27T175159.692-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><figcaption><em>Universal Hydrogen&#8217;s team of experts and the specialized Hartzell prop mated to a magniX-series electric propulsion system. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartzell also customized a governor for Universal Hydrogen\nand continues to develop governor advancements for green-powered aircraft. In\nthis first test flight, one of the airplane\u2019s turbine engines was replaced with\nUniversal Hydrogen\u2019s fuel cell-electric, megawatt-class powertrain. The other aircraft\nengine was powered by conventional fossil fuel for safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universal Hydrogen\u2019s first flight marked the largest\nhydrogen fuel cell-powered airplane ever to take to the skies and the largest\nairplane to cruise principally on hydrogen. The airplane, nicknamed Lightning\nMcClean, flew for 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 MSL. The flight was\nconducted under an FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate and the program is\nplanned to culminate in 2025 with entry into passenger service of ATR 72 regional\naircraft converted to run solely on hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Universal Hydrogen\u2019s De Havilland Dash 8 hydrogen fuel cell-powered testbed first flew earlier this month, its powertrain included a prop designed and tested for the experimental aircraft by Hartzell Propeller. The 91-inch diameter five-blade swept airfoil carbon fiber propeller utilized derivative blades, hub and retention components from an existing 14 CFR Part 35 certified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-ohio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-2023-03-27T173954.023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25217,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions\/25217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}