Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, Boeing has sped up itsecoDemonstrator programme to support its partner airlines, including those in Vietnam.
Withthe first testament Etihad Airways in the UAE, the ecoDemonstratorprogramme this year aims to bring less noisy flights, sterilised aircraftcabins and cockpits with UV lights, digital communications and time-basedmanagement arrivals as well as the use of less fuel leading to fewer CO2emissions.
Accordingto the technical leader for the ecoDemonstrator programme, Doug Christensen,the firm worked with NASA to test noise on the aeroplanes. He added anoise measurement system around the landing gear has also been installedto develop a solution for reducing the noise coming from aircraftengines.
Christensentold local media via an online meeting: “The noise reduction technology willhelp big cities in Vietnam like HCM City and Da Nang, with busy airports in ornear the city centre."
Todeal with the pandemic, Boeing will produce ultraviolet light wands,which help to sterilise aircraft cabins and cockpits without the need forconventional disinfectants, he said. Together with many new sterilisationtechnologies being developed, the Boeing also works with airlinesto investigate the transmission mechanisms of the disease.
Healso added in the co-operation with Etihad Airways, they will use thesustainable fuels that can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 75 percent,saying: “The sustainable fuels proposed by Boeing for use in this programmewill contribute to reducing emissions in the skies of Vietnam and the world.”
🌜 TheecoDemonstrator programme, running since 2012, focuses on technology to createsafer and more sustainable flights. These technologies will be applied inBoeing aeroplanes around the world./.
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A Boeing airplane. (Photo: Boeing) 
