BBJ Transforms the Boeing 737 Into a Long-haul, VIP-Class Aircraft – AINtv

the Boeing 737 is best known as the workhorse of the airline industry carrying millions of passengers on relatively short trips with carriers around the globe but the Boeing 737s a completely different alter ego in the shape of the Boeing Business Jet which the u.s. manufacturer developed from the same design just as its rival Airbus has done with the a320 families acj derivative this is all about carrying smaller groups of people on much longer trips the first thing that happens is we fly the aircraft to a facility in Delaware where we install special fuel tanks in the cargo compartment of the plane to allow it to fly so much further than a regular 737 we will install these special winglets that we're now including in the basic price of the aircraft the ones that point down as well as up after that you will talk to a variety of these special facilities around the world that will take the interior of this airplane which will be completely bare when you buy it from Boeing and they will install all of this wood and the seats and the tables and the beds and the showers and the in-flight entertainment and all the other features that you can see as we look around this cabin aviation partners founder Joe Clark explains the benefits of the winglets and how they work first of all you're going to save fuel up to two plus percent in fuel on the BBJ you're going to be able to fly at a higher altitude initially you'll have a quieter airplane and they have the latest look in aviation the way it changes the aerodynamics is if you look at an airplane like being a big ship there's a big wake and what we do is and that's that's called a vortex we reduce that vortex at the tips of the wings take it away from the flatter planar part of the wing raise it away so let's the airplane slip through the air easier VIP passengers spending 11 hours in an aircraft naturally crave a much higher degree of comfort than airline passengers making a short two-hour hop the BB J's interior offers plenty of room to adapt cabins to individual circumstances because you can segment the aircraft into specific cabins such as you'll see in this airplane you have the ability to conduct different meetings with different groups in your organization in total privacy one of the great things about this aircraft is that typically when we see a bed on this airplane it is just a bed it's not a seat that turns into a bed such as you find on an airliner or a smaller business yet it is a proper queen-size double bed with a seatbelt but that's about the only difference between it and the bed you'd sleep on at home you'll see a shower that's a proper full-size shower you'll see a dining room table such as the one we're sitting at so you can afford to put the amenities in your aircraft that correspond to the amenities that you might have in your home or your yacht or whatever other vehicle you choose to move around it the other thing that we're very proud of in this aircraft and I would tip my hat to the other business jet manufacturers for this is we've learned the importance of the lower cabin altitude in the airplane so this aircraft unlike an airliner version of this airplane has a cabin altitude at 41,000 feet of 6500 feet so you're breathing air is if you were 6500 feet up on a normal airliner that altitude is 8,000 feet and that does make a significant difference in your physical well-being at the end of a very long flight such as 12 hours or 13 hours the existing BBJ family consists of three different sizes of the 737 as well as versions of the triple 7 the 7 4 7 and the 7 8 7 wide-body airliners now boeing is planning a new generation of BB J's based on the new max version of the 737 with more efficient engines this will give scope to offer a larger aircraft with the same long-range capability you

Channel: Aviation International News

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Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2016