Hypermiling a Boeing 777

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United Airlines Tries Hypermiling a Boeing | Autopia | Wired.com

United Airlines has taken hypermiling to the skies.

On a flight between between Chicago and Frankfurt, the airline employed every trick in the book to show what can be done to reduce fuel burn in existing aircraft. The result was a savings of more than 1,400 gallons of jet fuel on a transatlantic round-trip flight. That may not sound like a whole lot, but with more than 600 airliners flying across the Atlantic on an average day, it adds up quickly.