Embry-Riddle Students Pioneer Arizona's Hydrogen-Powered Drone Future

Mechanical Engineering students at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University teamed up to retrofit a fixed-wing drone with a hydrogen fuel cell system — a technically complex and ambitious undertaking. For the project, known as GHOST and sponsored by Honeywell Aerospace, the students — from both the Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses — used fuel cell technology still in a prototype phase. “We had all these questions and no answers,” said Joshua Siegler, the team lead at Prescott. “That kind of set t