#Fedex livery boeing 777 worldliner series#

Photo: © Phillip Rohmberger / IFNĪnother addition to the ‘smart cabin’ is a self-adjusting Business Class seat by Adient Aerospace, which features wireless communication with the cabin. Additionally, the trolleys are now getting automatically secured once they are pushed into the galleys. A nice effect of this is that things can, apparently, predict when they break. It collects usage and performance data – just like a smart home. “ Galley features inventory and electrical power management, chiller integration and efficiency, health management and communication with the airplane cabin network“. Diehl Aviation has developed a ‘smart galley’.

Most of the cabin innovations are based on connectivity, some features are even comparable to smart home devices for example. Almost every new feature inside this plane is in some way called ‘intelligent’, ‘smart’ or ‘connected’. The US-American manufacturer got quite a lot of suppliers on board for this part of the plane, with a surprisingly strong presence of German companies ( maybe that is why Boeing is showing us the aircraft in Frankfurt?), and calls this 2018-launched partnership ‘Intelligent Cabin Collaboration Team’. Boeing’s media tour was therefore heavily based on cabin improvements. The easiest thing to show in an aircraft that is parked at a terminal gate, is the cabin. We’ll take a closer look at these solutions later on. However, there are other technologies as well, such as optimized routing, which is increasing the overall efficiency by avoiding unnecessarily long flight paths. During a briefing, Boeing only mentioned one thing that is directly decreasing emissions on the airplane itself through aerodynamic improvements: ‘smart’ vortex generators. That is not to say the aircraft isn’t experimenting in the areas fuel use and carbon emissions. However, other than the name ‘ecoDemonstrator’ suggests, these include all kinds of technologies, many of which have nothing to do with the ‘eco’ part in the project’s name at all. Photo: © Phillip Rohmberger / IFNīoeing says it – and over a dozen partners – are testing 50 different technologies on the 2019 airplane. It looks a little more basic, and has the program’s symbol (a green leaf) painted on the tail. Its livery is similar to the Boeing house color scheme that you can see on the manufacturer’s newer aircraft types, including the 787 Dreamliner, 777X and 737 MAX. The aircraft was originally built in 2001 and flew for Chinese flag-carrier Air China until last year. International Flight Network November 19, 2019Īs mentioned above, this year’s ecoDemonstrator is a Boeing 777-200.

Today, it was opened to local students, people working with the multi-national project, and journalists. It was followed by a 757 in a partnership with TUI Group in 2015, an Embraer E170 regional jet in 2016, and a FedEx 777 freighter in 2018, until Boeing unveiled the aircraft for 2019 this summer: a 777 in Boeing’s own livery.īoeing is showcasing its latest #ecoDemonstrator airplane, a 777-200, at Frankfurt Airport. In 2014, Boeing used one of its own 787 Dreamliners as a test bed aircraft. It was initially launched in 2010, with the first aircraft being introduced in 2012, in a cooperation with American Airlines, which provided a 737-800 in its livery for the project.

#Fedex livery boeing 777 worldliner series#

The program already saw a series of aircraft being outfitted with experimental testing equipment over the past few years. Under the so called ecoDemonstrator program, Boeing is working with a number of partners into researching and developing new technologies to make flying more efficient, safe and comfortable. Last month, Boeing’s 2019 ‘ecoDemonstrator’ aircraft, a 777-200, visited Frankfurt Airport in Germany, making it its first tour outside the United States. The Boeing 777-200 'ecoDemonstrator' at Frankfurt Airport.