U.S.-based
Boeing and Brazil's Embraer S.A. announced Tuesday that they intend
to collaborate to test environment-focused technologies through the
ecoDemonstrator Program in a joint effort to improve aviation's
environmental performance. This expands ongoing cooperation between
two of the world's largest airplane manufacturers.
Frederico
Curado, president and CEO of Embraer, and Marc Allen, president of
Boeing International, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the
Brazil-U.S. Business Summit organized by the Brazil-U.S. Business
Council.
Boeing
launched its ecoDemonstrator Program in 2011 to accelerate testing
and use of new technologies that can reduce fuel use, carbon
emissions and noise. The company has so far tested more than 50
technologies with a Next-Generation 737-800, 787 Dreamliner and,
currently, a 757. Through their collaboration, Boeing and Embraer are
planning to conduct ecoDemonstrator tests with an Embraer airplane in
2016.
The
ecoDemonstrator cooperation between Boeing and Embraer advances a
relationship that began in 2012 when the manufacturers announced they
would cooperate in ways that create value for both companies and
their customers. Since then, the manufacturers have worked together
to improve runway safety and support Embraer's KC-390 defense
aircraft program.
In
addition, in 2015, Boeing and Embraer opened a joint biofuel research
center in São José dos Campos, Brazil, to perform biofuel research
and coordinate research with Brazilian universities and other
institutions. Boeing has worked with suppliers, airlines and
government agencies on previous ecoDemonstrator flight tests. Those
technologies include a new winglet and "bug-phobic" wing
coatings that can improve aerodynamic efficiency, software
applications that can improve in-flight efficiency and new types of
sustainable aviation biofuel.
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