A growing assortment of startups are exploring smaller-scale hydrogen projects with hopes to scale up over time to eventually meet the needs of the mass market.
The poster child for new aviation tech like electrified propulsion and autonomy is not an exotic NASA X-plane, but that everyday workhorse: the Cessna Caravan.
Jekta has selected ZeroAvia to develop a hydrogen-electric, fuel-cell-powered version of its PHA-ZE 100 amphibian, originally designed to rely on batteries.
The same forces that led to the demise of Universal will also threaten ZeroAvia, as well as the other lesser-capitalized startups in the hydrogen space.