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Airbus Balances Automation and Airmanship
Subscription Required By Chris Sloan Oct. 09, 2025, © Leeham News: Automation, advances in the prospect and single-pilot operation, and overall aircraft safety are great for the airline and commercial aerospace industries. But the downside is that pilot… Read More
Excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Boeing and the Way Back
Oct. 7, 2025, (c) Leeham News: Boeing’s decline into the existential crisis that befell the company in March 2019 was decades in the making. The 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas Corp. is pegged as the tripping point. But… Read More
FAA begins to ease restrictions on Boeing
Subscription Required Part 2 of 2 By Scott Hamilton Oct. 06, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing is making progress toward its recovery from six years of back-to-back-to-back crises, but slow certification of three airplane derivatives has been a… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 10. Preliminary design.
October 3, 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
Staffing shortages affect Air Traffic Control, NOTAMS, updates–and Boeing
Subscription Required Part 1 of 2 Parts By Colleen Mondor Oct. 2, 2025, © Leeham News: The Trump Administration’s drive to cut employment in the federal government slashed numbers across virtually every agency and department. But for the… Read More