Perspective on Boeing’s 737 replacement

By Scott Hamilton Sept. 30, 2025, © Leeham News: The Wall Street Journal billed the story as an exclusive, and it did contain details previously unreported. But the fact that Boeing is working on a 737 replacement isn’t… Read More

Manufacturing and Materials Takes Center Stage in Next-Gen Aircraft at Global Aerospace Summit

Subscription Required By Chris Sloan Sept. 29, 2025, © Leeham News: At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aerospace Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 9, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury reminded attendees that propulsion alone cannot deliver the… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 9. Conceptual phase Certification work.

September 26, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New project talks about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster than… Read More

How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 7. Other OEMs.

Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 25, 2025, © Leeham News:  In Part 1 of this series, we described the production system for Embraer. Should Embraer or any other OEM enter the race for the next… Read More

Little impact seen on Boeing by Trump’s new H1B visa policy

By Scott Hamilton Sept. 23, 2025, © Leeham News: President Trump’s announcement last Friday that there will be a $100,000 fee on new applications for H1B business visas doesn’t appear to have much effect on Boeing. Boeing has,… Read More

How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 6. Airbus: Production of future aircraft

Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 22, 2025, © Leeham News:  In Part 5 of this series, we described the efforts to improve Airbus’ present production, and what the learnings were from changes in the FAL… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 8. Conceptual System design.

September 19, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New project talks about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster than… Read More

How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 5. Airbus: Improving the present

Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 18, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 1 of this series, we described the history behind Airbus’ very different production setup. The need to give a distributed value creation to… Read More

Boeing’s Orberg: Striving for parity with Airbus deliveries

Traveled work, rework are still obstacles 777X certification running late; customers now see first deliveries in 4Q2026 By Karl Sinclair Sept. 17, 2025, © Leeham News: “We were almost at parity on deliveries with Airbuses last month…. We’re… Read More

JetZero CEO Lands A Silicon Valley Mindset at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aviation Summit

By Chris Sloan Sept. 17, 2025, © Leeham News: At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aerospace Summit, Tom O’Leary, CEO and Co-Founder of JetZero, made clear that his company is bringing something different to commercial aviation: a… Read More