Très honoré d’avoir rencontré, en marge du match #AngleterreArgentine, Son Altesse Royale Kate Middleton, la Princesse de Galles.īienvenue en France à nos amis britanniques, tout au long de cette Coupe du monde #rwc2023 ! /0EBs8PYvUm Renaud Muselier, President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional council, shared a photo welcoming British fans and saying it was an honor to meet the Princess. In many of the photos, you see the Princess with Sir Bill (below, right, I believe). Kate said: “I’m sure it will be brilliant.” Sir Bill replied: “It’s been a very busy and hectic few weeks for the build-up.” Shame we can’t be here longer,” she said. Kate, patron of the Rugby Football Union, was greeted by RFU president Rob Briers, France 2023 chairman Jacques Rivoal and World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont before being shown to her seat in the Presidential Box at Marseille’s Stade Velodrome.ĭressed in a white trouser suit, she spoke with each of the administrators in turn but spent longest with Sir Bill, the former England captain. The England team during the national anthem. The match was at the Stade de Marseille in Marseille, southern France. Also in today’s post, the Princess is part of an entertaining rugby-related video. Geometrically and physically, the amount of space at a 38” pitch in both seat mode and bed mode is impressive.The Princess of Wales was in a familiar look for today’s Rugby World Cup match between England and Argentina. During a day flight, this could be set up as a kind of day bed, and the bed surface allows ample room to stretch out with papers and belongings. These could be simply secured with the bed seatbelt on loading. In addition, the bed area would allow pre-departure storage for what your author mentally calls Mount Duvet - the pillows, cushions, blankets, mattress pads, duvets, pyjamas and assorted soft product that must often be dispersed into the overhead bins, which in the storage-constrained narrowbody experience is a complicated endeavour. This makes certification a breeze, since the passenger is seated in a standard forward-facing seat, and dramatically reduces weight since bed mode is already achieved. The passenger sits in the recliner seat for taxi, takeoff and landing, and is free to curl up into bed as soon as the seatbelt sign goes “bing” if they so desire. In seat mode, Heric is a very spacious recliner with ample room towards the side. It’s arranged in the herringbone configuration that has been so persuasive for many seatmakers in the premium single-aisle market, and strips back what passengers might want for a longhaul narrowbody business class - the kind of short transatlantic night that has so challenged the passenger experience industry when it comes to creating new products. Where Heric 2022 was practically a Transformers toy of a converting row of economy seats, with swinging double-seatbacks and much latching to be done, this year’s is stunning in its simplicity.Ībout half of the product, on the aisle side, is a standard recliner, pitched at the kind of standard 38 inches of pitch and 22 inches of width that you might expect from narrowbody business, US domestic first or international premium economy seat.īut the other half, towards the window, is a simple, yet elegant, bed platform, joined by a raising legrest to create a sizeable sleeping surface. Heric 2023 (your author’s term, not Avio’s, with the original name stemming from “herringbone in cruise”) is a fascinating piece of perpendicular thinking. Watching the evolution of the thinking at this scrappy challenger seatmaker play out between shows always brings a refreshing and thought-provoking perspective, and so it is this year with the evolution of the company’s convertible herringbone concept “Heric” from last year’s show. There are many reasons to make AvioInteriors a stop on your annual circuit of the Aircraft Interiors Expo, and the excellent Italian espresso for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up is only one.
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