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Airbus sticks to 2027 EIS for A350F
By Scott Hamilton Oct. 22, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus reaffirmed its goal for the A350F to enter service in the second half of 2027, despite some customers telling LNA that EIS may slip to 2028. The… Read More
Blade-out design for CFM’s RISE; 2nd A320 line in Mobile
By Scott Hamilton Oct. 22, 2025, © Leeham News: The Open Rotor engine and its evolution, the Open Fan, promise dramatically lower fuel consumption compared with evolutions of the ducted fan engine. The Open Rotor has counter-rotating fans,… Read More
RTX Posts Steady Q3 2-25 As GTF Stabilization, Collins Strength, And Tariff Headwinds Define Results
By Chris Sloan October 21, 2025, © Leeham News: RTX delivered a solid and steady third quarter, marked by broad-based growth, improving GTF maintenance output, and continued strength at Collins Aerospace—even as tariff headwinds persisted. Company sales rose… Read More
GE Aerospace Q3 2025 Earning Lifts Guidance On Record LEAP Output And Strong Services
By Chris Sloan October 21, 2025, © Leeham News: GE Aerospace reported third-quarter results today, marking another period of broad-based momentum as the company raised its full-year outlook on stronger services and record engine deliveries. “GE Aerospace delivered… Read More
Consultant Presses Embraer To Confirm Large Bizjet Plans
Oct. 21, 2025, © Leeham News: From our partners at AIN: Embraer Executive Jets leader said company will take its time before taking its next step By Scott Hamilton October 16, 2025 Embraer this week reaffirmed that it… Read More
Airbus’ A220 conundrum
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus and Boeing face a challenge that is good news and bad news. The Airbus A220-300 is essentially an orphan. An “A220-500” is needed, but so is… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 12. Preliminary Design; Requirements Definition.
October 17, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New projects talk about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster than… Read More
GE advances on RISE’s dust ingestion, installation testing
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Arjan Hageman. Credit: GE Aerospace. Oct. 16, 2025, © Leeham News: GE Aerospace has begun dust ingestion testing of its RISE Open Fan engine, the earliest it’s ever done so. The company told… Read More
Heading toward year-end, Airbus maintains lead in narrowbody orders but Boeing commands the widebody sector
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus…. Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 11. Interior Preliminary Design.
October 10, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New projects talk about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster than… Read More