- This facility is not open to the public.
The facility is available when our customers are in town,
and other special guests such as yourself.
- This is the mock up cabin.
- The engineering design teams did a fantastic job.
- The good thing is, this is very,
very straightforward sitting
This is my love, this is Boeing 747.
- Alright, Sam, let's take a look
at one of the mega first class suites.
- Yeah, wow.
What a space here, this is incredible.
One bed and one chair,
which is really, really handy.
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Wow.
This is my love, this is Boeing 747,
where my love of aviation has started on this plane.
When I come in, the feeling was very different,
I became very emotional.
It's bringing my childhood memories back.
When I was young, when you fly intercontinental,
every single aeroplane was a 747.
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- Well welcome, Sam.
I've got a VIP configuration upstairs,
let's go take a look at that.
- A VIP configuration?
Even better treat from Boeing, let's go have a look.
- So you see a very traditional kind of configuration,
high pitch configuration back here.
But up here, we're showing a space
that's more of a premium space.
Normally we hold four first class suites.
We're showing with two of the suites removed
and a lounge put in to be more of a VIP-style configuration
for airlines that are maybe government owned,
occasionally they borrow a commercial aeroplane
and have a head of state use it.
So we're kind of showing that art of the possible.
- Yeah.
This is really, the head of state belongs here
on the upper deck of the 747,
where it's the most quiet and private cabin.
Look at this, oh my gosh.
No wonder the 747's still the favourite
of many, many head of states.
- Very true.
- Wow, what a space here.
This is incredible.
I wish every airline had a lounge like the good old days.
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- Alright, Sam, let's take a look in
one of the mega first class suites.
- Wow.
- Similar to some that airlines are flying.
- Yeah, I thought this is mega.
Okay, let's go have a look.
Oh, wow.
This is actually, many people will recognise
Lufthansa have this one bed and one chair
which is really, really handy.
And beautiful privacy.
What I like about laying on this bed is
you have complete level when you lay fully flat on the bed
and you can look out the window.
Really, really intimate and you can have
all your beautiful daydreams out there.
Really like it.
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Kent, I had a walk through your 747 mock-up
so impressed and love it.
But I feel like I don't know what is wrong with me?
The perspective or something?
This 747 feels a lot wider than the actual 747.
Is it because you're having less seats inside,
more space or what it is?
- No, it's a great question.
And everybody thinks that
and it really goes to the research and design
that went into our interiors and our interior philosophy.
We're actually using lighting, the bins,
all the surfaces designed to work together.
So psychologically, it feels like the space
is bigger than what it actually is.
And that's a key component
because we as humans perceive space in multiple ways.
Some as physical, some as psychological, visual.
And we're using our knowledge and research based data
to actually build into our design process.
- It's sold to me and you're a psychologist, by the way.
- I do have a degree in psychology, yes
- There you go.
This is my favourite, favourite section.
Because why?
If you sit in the first row,
think about it the cockpit is upper deck,
but the first row at the nose is actually in front.
You're sitting actually in the very front end of the plane
before even the cockpit, before even the pilot sits.
So the 747 has that amazing curvature that expands
your view if you're sitting in the front at the nose.
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They have three different configurations here.
This is more like a premium economy,
like a two, three and two.
The next one we have is the two, four and two
sitting abreast, eight seats across.
It gives you, can you see that little extra width here?
There's only two carriers as far as I know
have the two, four and two original configuration
advised by Boeing, which is ANA, All Nippon
and JAL, Japan Airlines.
Now follow me to the economy class.
So this is the more conventional 787 configuration.
And this is three, three and three across the economy.
This is back in business class
and the 787 is very wide now.
You can have two, two, two.
This is Zodiac Aerospace,
this is the manufacturer of the seats.
It's very wide and I like the straightforwardness
because you face straight,
you don't face diagonal or whatsoever.
However, there is pros and cons
in each type of seats design.
Really, resting on the aeroplane is important
and this seat here,
if you are sitting inside as my neighbour,
you would have to hop across me
to get out to the bathroom or to walk off somewhere.
But the good thing is, this is very, very
straightforward sitting and very wide as well.
You probably recognise some of the
seats here on the 787 is like one, two and one,
they're called a reverse herringbone,
which is actually the diagonal-facing business class.
So, it is really nice if you're sitting in
the solo seats here looking out the window,
your eyesight facing diagonally out the window.
The only thing I didn't like is it's not forward-facing.
So when you sleep, when you recline,
you actually sleep sideways.
I'm going to show you.
Not going straight, you're going sideways like this.
- This is the 737 Sky Interior MAX Interior.
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When we had this philosophy that was
used in forming the 787,
we saw how powerful it was,
we thought, how do we apply
these philosophical goals to the 737?
Because the 737, super popular,
super efficient, super reliable.
We wanted to say, if we can improve
the passenger experience, let's do that.
So what you're seeing here is the application
of the same philosophy to the 737.
Primary challenges were it's an existing aeroplane.
How do we apply this without adding weight,
without changing structure
and without affecting factory flow?
So it was a big challenge for us.
But the engineering design teams did a fantastic job.
So you'll see,
probably the most noticeable are the pivot bins.
You can push on the top and the bin opens.
You can push on the bottom, bin opens.
Pull on the top, pull on the bottom.
Whatever's intuitive to the passenger, it opens.
The shelf if always there, even when the bin is closed.
When you're seated, you're always looking at that shelf.
It really closes the cabin down.
But the benefit is when they're closed,
which is the majority of flight,
here I'm almost 6 foot tall,
I can step out of the aisle and still stand.
Seated, I'm no longer looking at a shelf.
It opens up the ceiling, it opens up the cabin.
It makes it much more spacious.
Creating this sense of spaciousness,
physical space and a sense of spaciousness.
So it's both physical and psychological.
Our interiors are not a collection of features.
Literally these are by design based on research,
everything is done with intent
to create that sense of physical and psychological space.
We call this one desert sunset.
And along the horizon,
you get this beautiful orange glow as the sun's setting.
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