Boeing announced last week that it will add a 787-10 to its ecoDemonstrator technology program, making it the first of the so-called Explorer aircraft. The Dreamliner will complement the current 777-200ER ecoDemonstrator that has been in use since mid-2022. Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator…
We had an opportunity to tour Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 777 aircraft at Oshkosh hosted by Rae Lutters, who heads the ecoDemonstrator program at Boeing. Rae was able to show us some of the projects currently being evaluated on the aircraft that we…
Boeing is about to start testing new technologies on its tenth ecoDemonstrator aircraft. The 20-year-old 777-200ER is the follow-on to the MAX 9 that has flown last year. It includes thirty technologies, most of them related to sustainability. What’s new on…
Boeing provided an update on their ecoDemonstrator program. The program started in 2012 using an American Airline 737-800. Since then they have utilized several other models: 2014 was the 787, 2015 was the 757; 2016 an Embraer E-170; 2018 used…