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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 5. January 17, 2020
- Air Canada inaugurates A220-300 service today January 16, 2020
- Certification process for 777X is another hurdle for Boeing January 16, 2020
- How far can Boeing’s remaining cash cow, the 787, pay the company bills, Part 2? January 16, 2020
- Boeing hasn’t hit bottom yet. Neither have suppliers. January 15, 2020
Are AirAsia and AirAsia X outgrowing their key markets?
Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Introduction Dec. 16, 2019, © Leeham News: AirAsia and long-haul sister AirAsia X have been growing at world-leading rates for much of the past two decades. AirAsia’s fleet growth in the 2000s was… Read More
Understanding Rolls-Royce’s financials
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Dec. 2, 2019, © Leeham News: Rolls-Royce continues to be in the spotlight for the Trent 1000 durability issues, with no end in sight. The engine manufacturer recently increased the total disruption… Read More
Is re-engining the Boeing 767 a good idea?
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction October 17, 2019, © Leeham News: FlightGlobal writes Boeing is investigating re-engining the 767-400ER with GE GEnx engines to produce a new freighter and perhaps a passenger aircraft as a replacement for… Read More
The time for a 767RE passenger model has come and gone
Subscription Required Introduction Oct. 14, 2019, © Leeham News: Boeing is reconsidering a previous idea to re-engine the 767 with GEnx powerplants, Flight Global reported last week. The idea was run up the flagpole, so-to-speak, in 2017. Boeing… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Airliner yaw stability
Feb. 22, 2019, ©. Leeham News: After discussing an airliner’s pitch stability we now turn to the yaw stability. A stable aircraft in yaw means we don’t want the aircraft to wag its tail sideways while flying. The… Read More
Pontifications: 787-10 engines too small for Emirates
Feb. 4, 2019, © Leeham News: There is more to Emirates Airline’s renewed its interest in the Airbus A350 and the potential swap-out of Airbus A380 orders than meets the eye. The Airfinance Journal Dublin conference is worth… Read More
Airbus eyes fighters, MRTT, satellites for Canada
Jan. 14, 2019, © Leeham News: Airbus Canada worked 10 years to position itself to win an order for 16 C295 FWSAR airplanes from the Canadian government. Officials hope it won’t be this long for the next big… Read More
2019 Outlook: COMAC’s slow but steady progress
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 4, 2019, © Leeham News: This is not the year where China’s COMAC will have break-out progress for the C919, its challenge to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. Flight testing is slow and… Read More