Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Feb. 21, 2022, © Leeham News: As Boeing ponders whether to launch a new airplane program and industry consensus seems to be that this must happen in 2023 or 2024, Pratt & Whitney… Read More
Posted on February 21, 2022 by Scott Hamilton
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton CFM RISE Open Fan. Credit: CFM. Feb. 1, 2020, © Leeham News: GE Aviation appears confident the CFM open rotor engine—a concept that was flight tested back in the 1980s—is an engine whose… Read More
Posted on February 1, 2022 by Scott Hamilton
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
Posted on May 5, 2020 by Bjorn Fehrm
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Introduction May 4, 2020, © Leeham News: The collapse of the Boeing-Embraer joint venture removes a major cloud over another Boeing agreement with a different airframe company. Long ago, Boeing and Mitsubishi Aircraft… Read More
Posted on May 4, 2020 by Scott Hamilton
Subscription Required Introduction April 22, 2019, © Leeham News: If there remains any doubt that Boeing’s prospective New Midmarket Airplane (NMA) won’t be ready for entry into service (EIS) by 2025, it should be dispelled by now. The… Read More
Posted on April 22, 2019 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Boeing 737 MAX, CFM, GE Aviation, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Rolls-Royce, Southwest Airlines
737 Classic, 737 MAX, 737NG, 797, A320NEO, Airbus, Boeing, CFM, GE Aviation, GEnx, GTF, LEAP, New Midmarket Airplane, NMA, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Trent 1000
By Dan Catchpole Subscription Required Introduction January 21 2019, © Leeham News: Boeing number crunchers are feverishly working through engine bids from Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and CFM International, the partnership of Safran and General Electric (GE), the… Read More
Posted on January 21, 2019 by Dan Catchpole
Oct. 29, 2018, © Leeham Co.: Engines, engines, engines. News emerged last week that Rolls-Royce admitted its continuing problems with the Trent 1000 that powers the Boeing 787 now bled over to the Trent 7000. RR will fall… Read More
Posted on October 29, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Subscription Required Introduction Sept. 17, 2018, © Leeham News: With the supply chain under major stress and Airbus and Boeing trying to recover from scores of “gliders” sidelined at airports without engines, each company nevertheless continues to study… Read More
Posted on September 17, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, CFM, Embraer, Irkut, Middle of the Market, Mitsubishi, New Midmarket Aircraft, NMA, Pratt & Whitney, Premium, Rolls-Royce
737-10, 737-9, 797, A320, A321NEO, A321Plus, A321XLR, Air Lease Corp., Airbus, Boeing, CFM, CFM 56, GTF, LEAP, NMA, Pratt & Whitney, Safran, Steven Udvar-Hazy
Sept. 6, 2018, © Leeham News: Boeing officials say the parked inventory of 737s has peaked at around 50 aircraft and should come down slowly as traveled work is performed. Officials made the comments yesterday at its annual… Read More
Posted on September 6, 2018 by Scott Hamilton
Aug. 6, 2018 © Leeham News: It happened to Airbus. It sort of happened to Boeing. It was bound to happen in a much bigger way to Boeing, and it has. Some 40 737s are now sitting around… Read More
Posted on August 6, 2018 by Scott Hamilton