Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- 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
- Tariffs Tumult Takes Over GE Aerospace Q1 2025 Earnings Call April 22, 2025
Full GAO report expected this week
The full, 69-page GAO report is expected to be issued this week, redacted of proprietary information. The report could be issued as early as today, we’re told. As soon as we get it, we’ll post it. Meantime, fired… Read More
GAO decision–only the tip of the iceberg?
Newsweek has a piece about US Sen. John McCain and the KC-X tanker competition, quoting an unidentified Pentagon official about McCain’s involvement. This is the first article we’ve seen quoting a Pentagon official. As readers know, we were… Read More
Economist piece on Airbus
In a welcome reprieve from the tanker saga, here’s an interesting piece about Airbus and the A380 from The Economist.
What’s next on the tanker?
We’ve been asked by media across the country, What’s next for the tanker competition? We stated our position long ago: if Boeing lost the protest, it should accept the GAO decision. On the other hand, if the Air… Read More
Details beginning to emerge in tanker ruling
All those interested in the GAO tanker decision are waiting for the 69-page decision to be sanitized of proprietary information, but one detail about life cycle cost emerged, according to this Bloomberg report: that Boeing wound up with… Read More
GAO sustains Boeing’s protest
In another stunning twist in the USAF tanker contract, the GAO sustained the Boeing protest over the award to Northrop Grumman. In a three page press release, the GAO sustained Boeing on key elements of the protest while… Read More
Waiting with bated breath
It didn’t take long for one of our readers to e-mail us that the headline for our Corporate Website update today (June 17) had a misspelling: Waiting with baited breath. Well, be that as it may–we said it… Read More
On the road
We’re on an extended travel schedule, so there won’t be much in the way of updates on this site. In advance of the anticipated June 19 GAO decision on the tanker competition, we’ll have some documents to post… Read More
Lots of Boeing, Airbus, tanker news
It’s been a busy 24 hours. In no particular order: Boeing drops out Boeing has dropped out of its participation to build the Joint Cargo Aircraft, called the C27J, because it could not reach a financial arrangement with… Read More
Top Air Force officials “resign”
Reuters just moved this report: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Moseley intend to resign, a congressional source told Reuters on Thursday. The resignations come after a series… Read More