Boeing ecoDemonstrator 777-200 Visits Atlantic City
With 50 different new technologies on board, Boeing's ecoDemonstrator is a flying test bed for innovation.
Banks of computers and monitors are all part of Boeing's ecoDemonstrator test program. The Boeing 777-200 recently touched down at Atlantic City International Airport for a chance to show community leaders, industry representatives, and students what the program is all about. (Photo: Mark Phelps - AIN)
Banks of computers and monitors are all part of Boeing's ecoDemonstrator test program. The Boeing 777-200 recently touched down at Atlantic City International Airport for a chance to show community leaders, industry representatives, and students what the program is all about. (Photo: Mark Phelps - AIN)

When Boeing’s brightly liveried, experimental-category 777-200 landed at Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey during a recent demonstration tour, it wasn’t an ordinary flight. Not only did Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator fly in from Frankfurt, Germany, the first time an aircraft from the program had ever visited outside the U.S., but the approach to KACY itself was experimental. Flown using controller pilot datalink communications (CPDLC), it also included a steep 3.77-degree glideslope on the approach.