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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 5. Turbofan design problems April 26, 2024
- Airbus 1Q2024 results: Airbus CEO: “A350 in-service experience drives positive reputation and orders” April 25, 2024
- A350-1000 or 777-9? Part 3 April 25, 2024
- Boeing CEO promises company is turning around…again April 24, 2024
- Solid start for stand-alone GE Aerospace despite cuts to LEAP output April 23, 2024
Pontifications: No engines, billions shy, devastating enviro analysis, Boom’s CEO still exudes optimism
Sept. 20, 2022, © Leeham News: Blake Scholl, the founder and CEO of Boom, the start-up company, continued to paint an optimistic picture about the Overture Supersonic Transport. He told the US Chamber of Commerce Aerospace Summit last… Read More
HOTR: MAX 7 and 10 certification; ecoAviation and the missing life cycles
By the Leeham News Team Sept. 18, 2022, © Leeham News: LNA last week attended the US Chamber of Commerce’s Aerospace Summit in Washington (DC). We’ll have a series of full reports in the coming weeks. Here are… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 37. VTOL Flight Control.
September 16, 2022, ©. Leeham News: We discussed one of the critical systems for an eVTOL over the last weeks, the battery system, its cells, and its management system. Another critical system for a VTOL is its Flight… Read More
Boeing remarketing stored 737s ordered by China
By Scott Hamilton Sept. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: The indefinite delay in China authorizing Boeing to deliver 737 MAXes to airlines led Boeing to slowly remarket more than that are 100 stored. CEO David Calhoun said today… Read More
Engine Development. Part 5. The Turbofans go High Bypass
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 15, 2022, © Leeham News: Last week, we looked at how Pratt & Whitney’s JT8D turbofan came to dominate short-haul airliners while the JT3D had the long-range market. The introduction of… Read More
The Airbus and Boeing market outlooks, Part 1
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Sept. 12, 2022, © Leeham News: Airbus and Boeing published their updated 2022-2041 commercial aircraft outlooks ahead of the July Farnborough Air Show. Unsurprisingly, both OEMs saw robust demand for the next… Read More
Pontifications: BOC Aviation sees widebody recovery next year
Sept. 12, 2022, © Leeham News: Widebody aircraft demand cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s still depressed. But the chief executive officer of lessor BOC Aviation sees recovery in the works. “We’re beginning to see quite a big… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 36. Battery Management.
September 9, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Over the last weeks, we have discussed the cells that make up the battery system for an eVTOL. The battery system has 10,000 cells or more. All these must, on an individual… Read More
Engine Development. Part 4. Turbofans go mainstream.
Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 8, 2022, © Leeham News: Last week, we analyzed the change from turbojets to turbofans for civil air transport. The jet engine was developed for high-speed military fighters and was not… Read More
HOTR: Could airport caps lead to 777X success?
Sept. 6, 2022, © Leeham News: Will Europe’s airport passenger caps ultimately save the Boeing 777X? Sometimes it’s more important to be lucky than it is to be good. It may be purely speculative, but Boeing may well… Read More