An uneven financial recovery among OEMs

Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction   March 28, 2022, © Leeham News: In an article last year, LNA highlighted the significant impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the financials of commercial aviation OEMs. Most recorded sizable losses and… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 11. Hydrogen and SAF.

March 18, 2022, ©. Leeham News: In our series, we have now seen the major limitations batteries as an energy source impose on an airliner and that hybrids work but don’t bring any advantages for an airliner. The… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 10. Where Hybrids work.

March 11, 2022, ©. Leeham News: After our articles about Serial Hybrids and Parallel Hybrids showed they were unsuitable for airliners, where do these make sense? The obvious answer is for our stop-and-go cars (as we then can… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 9P. Parallel Hybrid. The deeper discussion.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm March 4, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 9. Parallel Hybrid. It uses Leeham Company’s Aircraft Performance Model from our consultancy practice to analyze the design of a… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 8. Serial Hybrids.

February 25, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a summary of the article Part 8P. Serial Hybrid, the deeper discussion. We take an ES-19 type of battery aircraft and add a range extender to avoid the inadequate range… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 6P. Energy consumption, the deeper discussion.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm February 11, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 6. Energy consumption. It uses the Aircraft Performance Model from our Consultancy practice to generate energy consumed data when we… Read More

Forecast 2022: Sustainability

Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction February 7, 2022, © Leeham News: The year that passed was when Sustainability broke through the walls of “I’m not convinced we have a problem” and “If so, what shall we do… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 4. Reality checks.

January 28, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Having discussed where investments would be the most efficient in alleviating our Greenhouse gas problems and identified the low-hanging fruit, we now look at new technology airplanes that can improve the situation…. Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 4P. Reality checks, the deeper discussion.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm January 28, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to the Part 4. Reality Checks article. It uses data from Leeham Company’s Aircraft Performance Model to develop the relationship between OEW… Read More

“Don’t delude the public” on environmental advances in aviation

 By Scott Hamilton Jan. 26, 2022, © Leeham News: The International Air Transport Assn’s Annual General Meeting in Boston last October focused on industry progress and goals toward a greener environment. In a fanfare series of panels and… Read More