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Kanye West’s Hydrogen-Powered Air Force One Doesn’t Exist Yet
Liquid hydrogen would be a green alternative to jet fuel. Just don’t expect it to power Trump’s aircraft any time soon.
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A White House lunch including President Donald Trump and Kanye West turned, inevitably, to the future of aviation. By the end of Thursday’s meeting, Trump had expressed enthusiasm for the musician and fashion designer’s vision of replacing the presidential airplane, a Boeing 747, with a hydrogen-powered aircraft.
The only wrinkle is that no such airplane currently exists.