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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 19. April 25, 2025
- How good is the C929? Part 2. April 24, 2025
- Boeing First Quarter Results Update: China is 10% of the backlog, with 500 in “Unidentified” April 24, 2025
- Boeing First Quarter Results: Tariffs, Return flights, $10.55bn asset sale April 23, 2025
- RTX Q1 2025 Earnings: GTF Talk Takes A Back Seat To Tariffs April 22, 2025
Is failure an option in KC-X competition?
With Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) set to hold the tanker hearing on Thursday (Jan. 27), it is clear the USAF continues to drag on its decision in the KC-X competition, which was expected this month. It now looks… Read More
Odds and Ends: Big week for EADS, Boeing
It will be a big week for EADS and Boeing on a variety of topics: January 26 is Boeing’s year-end earnings call. More guidance on 787 deliveries and speculation of potential writes-offs mounts. On #1’s former, we think… Read More
EADS had Boeing data for a month, Sen. Cantwell charges; EADS denies it
Side note: While EADS and Boeing fight over the USAF tanker contract, and neither one is capable of delivering their respective tankers on time, IAI Bedek of Israel completed conversion of the Boeing 767-200ER (the same airplane Boeing… Read More
KC-30A for RAAF involved in in-flight incident, refueling boom lost
Australian Aviation has this story about an in-flight incident during a refueling test between the Airbus KC-30A and an F-16. Readers will recall a Boeing KC-767J for Japan Air Defense Services had an incident in which the boom… Read More
Odds and ends: More Airbus NEO orders soon, engine selections shortly; tanker slips again
Odds and ends: More Airbus NEO orders are likely within the next few weeks, including from the US and Asia; Indigo is expected to make its engine selection for its A320neo within the next month or so, and… Read More
Countdown on KC-X tanker award
Comments are still closed. Readers interested in posting Comments, please read our New Policies on Comments. Comments are re-opened, but moderated. EADS CEO Louis Gallois went public today in Europe with his prediction that the USAF will award… Read More
Boeing expects solid 777 order stream
Here’s a story we did for Commercial Aviation Online. Comments are still closed. Comments are re-opened but moderated. Read our new Comment policies. Boeing 777 orders on the cards Date: 11/01/2011 09:42 Source: Commercial Aviation Online Location: Seattle… Read More
Focus on Rolls-Royce Trent engines
Plane Talking has an interesting think piece about the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine that powers the Qantas Airbus A380. As readers know, a Trent 900 had an uncontained failure on QF32 that severely damaged the A380. Qantas still… Read More
US helps Boeing–and Europe helps Airbus. So what?
Notice: All right, Everyone, given the persistent personal stuff in the Comments, we have closed Comments for this posting. Wikileaks struck again with cables revealing US diplomats and the President support Boeing is sales efforts. The cables… Read More
Looking ahead for the tanker award
Will it ever end? This is the question about the interminable KC-X tanker competition. Unofficial word is now that the USAF is to announce its award in February, after slipping from January, December, November, October and August. US… Read More