Spirit Focused on Delivering On Time and At Quality

By Dan Catchpole Subscription Required Nov. 6, 2023, © Leeham News: Spirit Aerosystems’ new CEO Pat Shanahan’s focus right now is “to restore confidence in the company” with its biggest customers—Airbus and Boeing. During a Nov. 1st conference… Read More

Q3 Earnings: Hexcel’s Composites Rides The OEM Production Rate Ramp Up Wave, But Margins Pressures Persist

By Chris Sloan Oct. 25, 2023, © Leeham News  – Hexcel Corporation, a tier four carbon fiber supplier best known for its significant contributions to all-composite Boeing 787 and Airbus A350s, reported substantial overall Q3 revenues despite inflationary… Read More

Supply chain focus: Safran’ s first 2020 quarter

By Bjorn Fehrm May 5, 2020, ©. Leeham News: Next out in our COVID19 supply chain focus is Safran Group. Safran, together with GE Aviation, is the largest supplier of turbofan engines to the World’s airliners. Their success… Read More

Boeing skeptical of CSeries, C919, MS-21 EIS

We wrote the following article for Commercial Aviation Online, which appeared yesterday. In case anyone wonders, there is no relation between John Hamilton and us. ********* The chief engineer of the 737 program is skeptical of the emerging… Read More

Boeing Sky Interior delivery today

Boeing is delivering its first 737 “Boeing Sky Interior” today to FlyDubai. The interior is inspired by the 787, which was also adapted to the 747-8. Here is a link to a feature story prepared by Boeing’s Corp… Read More

737 production rate hike, PW’s GTF, Airbus’ A320 NEO

We talk about the prospect of a production rate hike at AirInsight this morning. Here’s a story from Flight Global taking a detailed, focused look at the Pratt & Whitney P1000G Geared Turbo Fan, which will power the… Read More

PW’s GTF, Boeing’s culture, China’s C919 and ARJ21, CSeries

Jon Ostrower of FlightGlobal has this piece about the “bolt-on” of Pratt & Whitney’s P1524G PurePower Geared Turbo Fan. The PurePower, also known as the Geared Turbo Fan, is the engine designed for Bombardier’s CSeries, with larger versions… Read More