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Leeham News and Analysis
- What’s the gain of flying a smaller single-aisle during COVID-19 recovery? May 28, 2020
- HOTR: LATAM files bankruptcy, latest COVID airline casualty; 1,100 aircraft involved May 26, 2020
- Mitsubishi SpaceJet retreat is the best news for Embraer in months May 25, 2020
- Pontifications: Aircraft values, lease rates plummet May 25, 2020
- Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 3. May 22, 2020
MRJ regional jet delayed until mid-2020
By Bjorn Fehrm January 23, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: Mitsubishi announced a further two years delay of the MRJ regional jet project in a press conference in Tokyo today. The 90-seater variant of the aircraft will be delivered to… Read More
Trump or Clinton will be OK for defense industry: Analyst
Aug. 24, 2016: It’s a light week for relevant commentary from the US aerospace analysts. Buckingham Research takes a view on the election of either Trump or Clinton on the defense industry. India’s Jet Airways will defer 10… Read More
UTAS sees increasing electronic architecture in future airplanes
Subscription Required Introduction June 9, 2016, © Leeham Co.: The debate continues whether the next new, clean-sheet airplane will be a Middle of the Market aircraft (MOMA) or replacements for the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 families. Along… Read More
Airbus stepping up innovation
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required Introduction June 6, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: In January last year I had a discussion with Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier regarding the innovation level at Airbus. The background to the discussion was that… Read More
Mitsubishi’s MRJ test flying making good progress
By Bjorn Fehrm in Tokyo May 18, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MAC) announced that their MRJ flight test program is now going well. Mitsubishi presented the status update at the International Society of Transport Aircraft… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Flight control, Part 3
25 March 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Last week we covered the natural stability of commercial aircraft and the most important movements the aircraft would go into if we had no pilot intervention. Now we will cover how Fly-By-Wire… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Flight control, Part 2
18 March 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Last week we covered the early days of flight control when the pilot controlled the aircraft’s movable surfaces (called movables; e.g. stabilator, rudder, ailerons, spoilers…) without the involvement of computers. We will… Read More