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Boeing, Embraer To Collaborate on ecoDemonstrator Tests
Plans call for an Embraer airplane to fly ecoDemonstrator trials next year
Crews fuel Boeing’s 757 ecoDemonstrator with a blend of 95 percent petroleum jet fuel and 5 percent “green diesel” at Boeing Field in Seattle. The green diesel consists of waste animal fats, inedible corn oil and used cooking oil. (Photo: Boeing)
Crews fuel Boeing’s 757 ecoDemonstrator with a blend of 95 percent petroleum jet fuel and 5 percent “green diesel” at Boeing Field in Seattle. The green diesel consists of waste animal fats, inedible corn oil and used cooking oil. (Photo: Boeing)

Boeing and Embraer have signed a memorandum of understanding to use an Embraer airplane as an ecoDemonstrator platform some time next year, the companies announced Tuesday. Frederico Curado, president and CEO of Embraer, and Marc Allen, president of Boeing International, signed the agreement at the Brazil-U.S. Business Summit organized by the Brazil-U.S. Business Council. The June 30 business summit, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, occurred during an official visit by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff with U.S. President Barack Obama.