- I'm in the KLM hangar here.
This is a Dreamliner.
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Thanks for having me on the Dreamliner cockpit here.
- This is very much a realistic idea
for a new passenger aircraft.
So right now we're standing
in a mock-up section of the Flying-V.
- When do you expect to see the Flying-V,
this model, and the reality one takes off?
Welcome on board.
My next stop is Amsterdam.
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So I just arrived in Amsterdam
here at the KLM Engineering Service,
to learn about what KLM's doing
to sustain the future of aviation.
So Ramona, what are we going to see today
of what you guys have done so far?
- Yeah, so today I'm going to explain you a bit more
about what our stability approach in general.
Then we will show you 3D printing initiative
with recycled materials.
You will talk with our fuel director
on sustainable aviation fuel.
Then you will see one of our pursuers
talking about our closed loop initiative.
And you will see a pilot talking about efficiency.
And I think tomorrow you'll also go
to technical university in Delft.
- Right. - About our Flying-V project.
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- Hi there. - Hello.
- Hello.
- I'm Ranette (inaudible last name) .
- Very tall.
- (laughing) It's true.
Welcome to the Engine Services Makerspace.
Where, this is one out of eight innovation hubs
where we do 3-D printing and engineering and maintenance.
- [Sam] I have no understanding, what's 3D printing.
So, show me what you guys doing.
- [Ranette] So what we're printing here are aircraft tools,
that are tools that support
the maintenance process of our aircraft.
This is a fan blade cover.
And if you are sending in front of an engine,
you'll see a lot of these blades.
And during the maintenance process,
we need to shot peen them.
So we started thinking
how can we use 3D printing as a method to create tools
that make the maintenance process faster,
safer, or more durable?
At this moment we did a pilot of one week
where we used all the PET plastic waste
of one week of our operation,
to create 150 kilos of filament.
So one week gives you 150 rolls of these.
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- So Sam, here's a table we made
for the new KLM Headquarters.
It's made out of recycled plastic,
and is made by topology optimization.
You can see here with a special type of support down here,
it's calculated to reduce waste material.
and it's supposed to be able to support about 150 kilogrammes.
- Right, So it's made from plastic bottles
to make furniture. - Yep.
- A table for the KLM Headquarter.
- Definitely yeah. - 150 kilo, I'm about that.
(laughs)
Let me do a stress test on your product.
- Yeah, very stable, I sit on,
oh boy, I heard a crack.
(both laughing)
How many hour it took you to develop this?
- To print it, it took about 240 hours I think, so--
- 240 hours? - Yeah, just to print it.
- This is all, a man's, the machine is doing by itself.
- Yeah the machine, you programme it in
and then it prints it out for you.
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- All right so what I actually made here was uh the KLM 100
gear house and I made it specially for you.
- Wow!
- With the material from the recycling uh plant.
- My God.
What is really cool I'm uh absolutely stunned because 3-D
printing can make just like the uh original look of the dull
blue house this is almost the same shape, but this is
created by recycled products.
- Indeed.
- You know. Wow.
- So that could be your pet bubble that you use one time
in the KLM flight.
- (laughing) That's really cool. Thank you so much.
This is a great idea, brilliant.
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I'm in the KLM hangar here this is a Dreamliner I'm going to
go inside a 787 Dreamliner to discover and learn a bit
more about sustainability inside this Dreamliner.
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So, I got onboard the Dreamliner and in the galley here
Purser Mio and two ladies heres going to explain to me that
showing me their latest KLM recyclable products will be used
onboard. So Mio can you explain a bit more about what's
behind this and how you came up with this idea?
- [Mio] Normally this items are uh uh thrown away after the
flight.
- Yeah.
- And now we collected all items from
four flights from Vancouver to Amsterdam, cleaned it
recycled it, and used it again on the flight from
Amsterdam to Vancouver. So, we didn't throw it away we used
the material again.
- You recycle all the stuff from the flight, from Vancouver
and then used them again after recycling these are
the new products and on the flight back to Vancouver?
- Yes.
- This is what you have done, yeah?
- Yeah, yes.
Uh we save the meal main meal uh dish the salad bowl,
the glass
and the cutlery.
- I want to check your cutlery because your cutlery's metal
'cause you can wash them?
- (inaudible) uh plastic.
- Plastic.
- Plastic, plastic yeah.
- Yes, so why you use plastic 'cause I thought plastic is
uh harmful to the uh environment?
- Well if you throw it away in nature
- Uh-hu.
- It's harmful.
- Okay.
- The three uh use it again. We wash it and clean it.
- You wash the plastic and reuse them?
- Yes for for this test flight to Vancouver it is a really
good quality so we can wash it and use it again.
- What's the feedback so far? Do the passenger notice
the difference or?
- Yes we made an announcement.
- Um.
- Uh in which we explained what we are doing and they
reacted very energetic.
- Passengers help us with separating the plastic when we
uh on the European flight for example come by to collect
all the plastic waste we separate the bottles and the cans
from the meal boxes and they actually help us.
- Really? Wow!
- So uh it becomes easier for us to do it.
- That's great to hear. Wish more airlines doing the
same thing.
- Look at the carpet.
- Yeah. What's wrong with the carpet?
- If you look at the carpet you look at the blue and the
blue in my uniform.
- Hm.
- Do you have an iead?
- No idea, but, I just see dot dot dots. But I
- Well the
- I don't know. It's all blue.
- The blue that you see in the carpet is the same blue as
my uniform is actually made from the uniforms,
our old uniforms so KLM recycled it
- Really
- Yes, and they made carpet from it
- I'm also going to try out your new seats here on the 787
- Yeah this new
- I haven't flown the KLM Dreamliner, yeah, good seats, huh
- It's like a small house
- Oh hi, you can see yourself here, that's nice, very nice
lik a blue house open and close like that,
look at this
- And you see how handsome you are after a 24-hour flight
- Oh yes, after a long flight I became handsome
(laughing)
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- [Sam] So Captain Imervile,
thanks for having me on the Dreamliner cockpit here.
So, I want to know from a captains perspective,
from a pilots perspective, what are you guys doing to be
more sustainable in aviation.
- Very good question, we can do a lot as pilots.
Cause we are handling the thrust levers.
We are dealing with the amount of fuel.
So we can do a lot of things and we say to our pilots,
if you can burn only 50 kilos each flight it's nothing
compared to how much fuel is in the tanks.
But you add it up each flight, each day, and at the
end of the year you have a low amount of fuel burned
and therefore also CO2.
And you can do, you can postpone the moment of starting
your engines.
You can, when taxi in, you can shut off one engine.
So you taxi on only one engine to the gate.
Its completely safe, it's completely okay.
You save a lot of money.
You can postpone your moment of starting decent.
You can postpone your moment of setting flaps.
To have less drag so to burn some fuel.
- [Sam] You need to coordinate with ATC.
You can't just make a decision on your own
when to start to descend or to line up the runway.
- [Captain] Yes, of course, it's depending on the airport
you are flying to.
Because John F. Kennedy, New York is quite busy.
So you're not entitled to have a lot of room
for your decisions when you fly, let's say within Europe.
It's not that busy, so you have more space.
But of course even at Skipol you can respond.
If you're always looking for the small things to gain
in the end you'll end up with a lot of earning on fuel.
- Thank you very much for sharing
all the insight with me today, thank you.
- Yeah, Yeah you're welcome. Very good. Thank you.
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- [Sam] But exactly is sustainable aviation fuel?
Can you explain a bit more to me?
- Yeah so, sustainable aviation fuel for us
is fuel that is made from waste products and converted into
a fuel which is comparable to the normal fuel.
- [Sam] Cause I've heard a lot of people mentioning bio fuel
and also people talk about synthetic fuel.
So is this all sustainable aviation fuel
you're trying to take?
- Not really, bio fuel we see as first generation fuel.
Which is created from our palm oil or soy oil
and there we see a sustainability challenge.
Because, the farmers there are cutting down forests
to create the palm plantations and that's something
we do not like.
We didn't want to focus on waste streams
and waste cooking oil.
Then you have synthetic oil, which is something
where you take CO2 out of the air and convert that into
a sustainable aviation fuel.
The challenge there is energy that is required
and also the price.
The price is two to two and a half times
expensive as normal fuel.
It's also 10 years away because it's a big challenge
to get the price down and to have enough
factories in the world because there aren't enough now.
And they're also at a study phase.
There are still a lot of challenges to be met.
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- [Sam] Wow!
Look at this, a very unconventional futuristic design
of the aeroplane.
A V-shaped fuselage, engines mounted at back.
Not the round fuselage conventional design.
I'm at the TU Delf.
Delf University of Technology here in Colon.
Malcolm, thank you very much for inviting me here.
- Thank you
- Tell me more about this flying V.
Is this really a realistic idea or is this
just someone's sci-fi idea on the drawing board?
- [Malcolm] This is very much a realistic idea for a new
passenger aircraft.
So with this concept, it's based on the A350 design.
It also carries 315 passengers
and flies 5,000 nautical miles.
With the design of the aircraft, purely from this V-shaped
and being a flying wing, from all of those benefits
we are able to save 20 percent fuel
and respect to the A350.
- [Sam] So Malcolm, looking at this electric fin engine
it can power the model, right?
But what about the real 1-to-1 scale powering?
- [Malcolm] Currently, for the design
we are using the engine from the A350
so that's a big turbo fan engine that runs on carnosine.
That 20 percent reduction comes
purely from the aerodynamics and not from an improved
engine technology.
So the unconventional V design.
And in future, we are looking at other engine options
such as synthetic fuel, hydrogen,
or maybe hybrid electric aircraft.
But once the technology improves and it becomes ready
for that kind of integration we can
also integrate that into it.
- [Sam] So Malcolm, I guess the big question is
When do you expect to see the flying V, this model
and the reality when one takes off?
- [Malcolm] This model once we are finished building it
we'll fly later this year then we're going to take the test
flying and check all the aerodynamics of this model.
But then the results of that will be used to carry on the
design which will still take quite a long time because
there is a long design road ahead.
So we hope that between 2035 to 2040 that the full scale
design will be finished where the passengers can then
go and enjoy the flying V.
But for the moment I invite you to go and checkout
we have a mock-up of the full-scale cabin.
So then you can also see what the passenger experience
in that new cabin and the oval section because there's
also different seating options and different comfort
ideas for the passengers and also how to improve the
passenger experience in the Flying V.
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- So right now we are standing in a mock-up section
of the Flying V.
This is the same width as A350 Airbus.
- Okay
And what you have to imagine right now is
we have economy class and we have different solutions
for more comfort in economy class in the Flying V.
Now the one thing you're not seeing
which is our centre piece are the staggered seats.
Which make sure that you sit
in the direction of which you fly, which is nice.
But we have some other very cool concepts
that we'd like you to see.
- [Sam] I'm seeing there are people here, trying out, right
- There's people here.
- Designer, right?
- We have some design students and
they can tell you a little bit more about each
individual concept for economy.
- Oh yeah it really fits four people here, right.
This is like the good ole days when aviation when they
fly the plane all along those planes used to fly very slow
and they need time to do like this family time together.
- [Woman] With this you can allow people
to sit more closely to each other and it's actually
taking the same space as two rows of seats.
- [Sam] Right, it's jus two row.
One row there and one row.
But we're just facing each other that's all it is.
Just reverse the seats and you create a good
family area or a social area.
- Yeah, exactly.
- Pretty cool, pretty cool.
- So I don't quite get it, this is like one is higher
and they look like a swing here.
And one is lower.
So, is that going to be staggered
like high low, high low, like this?
- Yes, exactly like that.
It will be staggered, the idea is we staggered
high low, high low, because this way
the seat itself can change into about 3 positions.
You can slide under and be very comfortable laying.
- Like this guy.
- You could sit up normally or you can even stand and lean
for a bit.
- Ah okay, you can stand and lean.
- Because the number one priority
is to change your position every hour
change your position a bit.
That way you don't get those tired legs.
- [Sam] You see it's like you have a lot of head room
to utilise.
- Head room to utilise and you have room underneath
in this specific position.
- [Woman] This is actually three beds.
(inaudible mumble) In research say that 60 percent wants
to sleep on a haul flight.
So we were thinking how can we enable that.
With these three beds we can allow three persons to sleep
and during take-off and landing, of course
people have to be able to sit in a seatbelt.
So, therefore the lowest bed can be folded.
Then three persons can sit next to each other
in the seatbelt.
- We're listening to her idea but we're also
proving this idea. So this worked.
So during take-off and landing we'll sit here and
after take-off we go into our bed.
That's pretty cool.
Is this actually economy class?
Or you don't have economy class.
This is all one?
- This is really to enable economy class to be able
to sleep as well with the same price.
- Wicked idea.
This would be a winner, realy.
After take-off go straight, there's a person there.
I was thinking I was touching someone's feet there.
(laughing)
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Thank you so much Captain and everyone showing
me the environment initiative KLM is taking.
I know this is KLM 100 birthday this year and
I wish KLM many many more hundreds birthdays to come.
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