welcome my name is Bryan Melton and today here from Jackson Center, Ohio
we're going to take a look at the brand new 2021 Flying Cloud. The 2021 Flying
Cloud has a new couple new updates on the exterior, otherwise it's really
refreshed on the inside. While we're on the outside: the awning has been
updated. It's a lighter color awning, allows a little more light transition
through the fabric. And you might notice a different water heater on the exterior.
It's quieter it's more efficient it's also tankless. It runs off LP and it is
continuous so a couple nice upgrades on the exterior. On the inside we'll
introduce you to the new decor. Here we have the 23FB 9 that's the model that
we're in - it measures 23 feet nine inches from the center of the coupler to the
edge of the bumper. Here in the galley you have storage on top you have a
pull-out pantry stainless steel sink which has been updated for 2021 and a
new faucet. Updated decors - we have a lighter more contemporary what we call
Sunlit Maple. Wood grain updated countertops and new for 2021 is this
platinum gloss again flat rather than curved and we took away this woodgrain
look of the past and we've changed it up just a little bit to make
it look a little bit more modern. Updated hinges on both sides allow for a soft
close. It really enhances the feel and overall just kind of feeling as you're
inside the Airstream. We updated the cooktop last year that continues
throughout this year. It's available with a microwave or as this one is a
convection microwave oven so it's an option if you choose the microwave it
would be here if you choose the convection microwave oven it just
replaces the microwave. That changes in some different floor plans and is unique on
the 23FB. As you're moving through we can take a note of the floor. We updated
the flooring on this to kind of create and mimic what we're
trying to do throughout has create a more airy, open floor plan. The windows
which are shut right now to showcase the window coverings really helps open it up
you know with this light decor and the big windows it really opens up this
space. The 23FB as well as a 23CB and the 23CB Bunk those three models all
share the 8 foot wide what we call "narrow body" shell. Anything above a 23 so
the 25 or larger has that eight and a half foot wide shell. The 23 is very
popular for people who have SUVs or or smaller tow vehicles mainly because it's
lighter. This weighs just over 4,800 pounds dry, has a maximum capacity of
6,000 pounds (which is the GVWR). Here in the dinette you have this booth style
dinette that allows for multiple people to sit around. It also converts into a
sleeping area. That sleeping area is 38 by 76. It's great for a single adult or
two kids. The material that we use is Ultraleather. Ultraleather is extremely
breathable, it's puncture resistant, stain resistant and it has a real nice handle
to it. Feels just like real leather. The reason we don't use real leather - a
couple reasons. One: Sustainability. Two: real leather in the travel trailer
environment with the real high hot heat excuse me and then the actual real cold
cold, it could kind of crack that leather over time. This will maintain its look
years and years and years to come. The window coverings that I mentioned
this is a roller shade so it just simply comes up it's housed in aluminum which
looks fantastic against the aluminum interior and come straight down. All windows that
open have a screen and all windows that open have a rain gutter on the outside
so if it does start to rain lightly and the awning was in it would actually not
come through the window itself.
And I should say the windows in some RVs open up just a little bit. In the
Airstream travel trailer that window opens up that entire the entire piece so
the hinge is way up on top so it opens up all the way your fridge is a it runs
off of either LP or electricity so you runs off of either the 110 when
you're plugged into Shore or if you're traveling or if you need to your
boondocking or camping remote you can run off the LP just one thing I'm note
is it does take a little longer to get that cooling property food-safe cooling
property on the LP so make sure you give yourself a little bit more time to get
that nice and cool prior to taking off again you can also just plug it in to
your house and get it up to that speed and then turn the LP on as well the 23
FB is actually gives you kind of a lot of closet room for its size big big
wardrobe closet here which you can hang also up on top as well as another
wardrobe here so you almost kind of have two wardrobes for extra clothes extra
stuff things you want to bring with you drawers that come down for again more
storage storage underneath the dinette booth as well and of course the overhead
lockers which provide you with a lot of options and a lot of storage as well
with that new soft-close hinge in the bedroom you have your television which
can swing out and allows you to watch it from the dinette area or while you're
cooking and allows you to come back in and watch it in the bedroom here as well
one item to note it's also new for the new model year is this new fabric
privacy curtain in the past we've had these full debts and we wanted to
upgrade that so we had as we did a special edition Tommy Bahama four years
ago and we did it in that model we put it
into the Globetrotter and now we have in the Flying Cloud as well as
international in the bedroom you have an east-west queen why we see east-west
well north-south the headboard would be over here
on a more compact floor plan like this we put that bed east-west it allows you
to have a walk-around queen a bit you know get this kind of scoot yourself on
this side but it does allow you to scooch yourself around and have a walk
around queen in a you know otherwise a compact floorplan nightstand on the side
has both a 110 outlet as well as a 12 volt outlet USB to charge and you have a
fantastic fan the fantastic fan that's above this great amount of air capacity
flow let's the natural air in it does have a rain sensor so let's say you're
at a campsite and you want to go for a hike and it starts raining but you open
this up to kind of let it air out this will automatically close automatically
shut down you don't have to worry about water coming in it just closes down
automatically which is fantastic new for the Flying Cloud is updated soft goods
so new thrill pillows it does come standard with pillows as well and this
comforter which has also been updated all air streams come with a memory foam
mattress blackout shades throughout the back those blackout shades can be pulled
and have a nice panoramic window it's great when viewing inside your bedroom
when closed it creates a completely black space as we turn our attention to
the ceiling a couple things I want to highlight that's not just unique to this
particular floorplan the 23 FB but available in all flying clouds so we
have a dimmable light LED lighting on the inside it's a warmer more natural
light that we've had in the past also while we're on the ceiling quiet
strained you may have seen it you may have heard about it it was debuted in
2014 on a specific model but it evenly distributes air conditioning or heat
pump because it's either one on top there throughout the whole unit and it
does so quietly so that's an update that we've done over the time and each one of
these is adjustable you can adjust an airflow direction as well as open and
close that vent the solar package this is the controller
right here gives you a 90 watt panel on top of this particular model when you go
to the Y body you'll get an additional panel on top as well as two AGM
batteries in the back so that's an upgrade that you can do and your dealer
can do that upgrade too because every Airstream is pre-wired for solar new
inverter that allows certain plugs inside this unit like for example the
television plug to work off your battery so it converts 12 to 110 in the bathroom
what's unique about this floorplan and special about it is this
all-encompassing rear bath so this whole rear cap is your bathroom
you have a toilet on one side you have the brand-new water heater that controls
right here you have two Lavvy sink a mirror for applying makeup or shaving
and then also a shower and a shower quite large for a smaller floorplan even
someone my height can actually kind of fit inside which is nice certainly on a
23 size floorplan this is the exclusive first look at the new 2021 Flying Cloud
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