Eddy's Good News: First hydrogen powered flight takes off in the UK and a forgotten painting worth millions!

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26 Jan 2023, 10:11

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Thursday 26th January 2023

The aviation world is on fire - except it isn’t that’s a terrible choice of metaphor on many levels - because there’s no fire involved in the world’s first multi passenger, hydrogen powered flight, and it took off in the UK!

Say hello to a 19-seat aircraft called the Dornier 228, designed by ZeroAvia, a start-up developing hydrogen-powered engines for regional flights. This one left the Cotswolds Airport in Gloucestershire, and landed ten minutes away but champagne corks are still popping at a potentially commercial flight with zero carbon emissions whose engine has got the all clear4 from the Civial Aviation Authorities in the US and UK now. “This is a major moment, not just for ZeroAvia, but for the aviation industry as a whole, as it shows that true zero-emission commercial flight is only a few years away,” said ZeroAvia founder and CEO. This means I can visit my friend Tommy on the banks of Loch Lomond easily and guilt free soon!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

An amazing cash in the attic story from the USA except this one’s a cash in the barn as a painting covered in bird poo turns out to be worth millions!

Say hello to an oil sketch, effectively an unfinished painting, bought for $600 in 2002 from an estate auction, the organisers of which had spectacularly failed to do their homework, which is predicted to sell for $3 million when it goes up at Sotheby’s. Why? Because it’s by Van Dyck!

A Study of Saint Jerome is one of only two known live model works completed by the dutch master and eventually court portrait artist for Charles I, Anthony van Dyck. It was “most likely created between 1615 and 1618, when the young painter was working as an assistant in Rubens’s Antwerp studio.” and ended up in a farmhouse in NY state, settled by Dutch families centuries later. Van Dyck was so loved by the British royal family that he was buried in St Paul’s cathedral.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org