From the passenger seat to the rear, the guests palmed the creamy leather on the interior and nestled into the well-lit cabin space.

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Placing the batteries in the floor of the vehicle provides optimum weight distribution to help enhance handling and allows for five-passenger seating by not intruding into the cabin space.

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The spaceship, which will carry six passengers and be based in New Mexico, will be hoisted by a carrier craft to 50, 000 feet before blasting on its own to suborbit, where passengers will float weightless about the cabin and see space and the Earth through large windows.

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Couldn't you also, Airbus, introduce new cabin amenities in terms of space for passengers, have internet on board and so on?

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You can open the bed and the back of the cabin creating a huge open space stretching from the tailgate to the front seats.

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Both planes feature a quieter cabin and brighter lighting, designed to give the impression of more space.

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Adam Wells, Virgin Galactic's head of design, said the cabin's interior was being kept as minimal as possible to reduce weight and maximize space for floating.

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Air Wales had hit the headlines last year by appealing for cabin crew under 5ft 3 inches - a height restriction it insists on because of tight space on the aircraft.

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