Boeing to Test ‘Curtain of Air’ to Fight Covid in Jet Cabins
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Boeing Co. plans to test whether blasts of air could prevent germs and viruses such as Covid-19 from circulating between rows of jetliner passengers, as part of a broader initiative to make air travel safer and greener.
The planemaker is installing 20 overhead air vents with special 3D-printed nozzles to create a “curtain of air” in a new 737 Max 9 jet, Doug Christensen, a Boeing technical fellow, told reporters Thursday. Alaska Airlines contributed the so-called ecoDemonstrator aircraft to test new technologies over the next five months.