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- Five for Five: Air India crash points to systemic problems at Boeing that CEO Ortberg must fix June 15, 2025
- Airbus sees Boeing as medium-term competitor, with Comac next June 14, 2025
Airbus preparing to hike A350 production rate
Subscription Required Introduction Oct. 5, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airbus is gearing up to increase the production rate of the A350 from 2018’s planned 10/mo to 13/mo, perhaps as early as the following year, LNC has learned. The… Read More
Pontifications: 49 years ago, the first 747 rolled out
Sept. 30, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Today is the 49th anniversary of the roll-out of the Boeing 747-100. On Nov. 7, United Airlines operates its last 747 flight. Delta Air Lines ends it 747 service this year. Afterward,… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Laminar flow aircraft
September 29, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: Airbus flew its “Blade” laminar flow research aircraft for the first time this week. It’s a project in the European Clean Sky research program. The “Blade” aircraft is a modified Airbus A340-300, where… Read More
Airbus is working on a 7,000nm A330-900
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction September 28, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Airbus is working on increasing the range of the larger variant of the A330neo to 7,000nm. The present version, A330-900, flies 287 passengers 6,550nm, according to… Read More
VLA sector dead, Boeing claims, but Large Wide Body also struggles
Subscription Required Introduction Sept. 26, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing declared the Very Large Aircraft sector dead in its most recent Current Market Outlook, removing the category entirely when the 2017 CMO was revealed at the Paris Air… Read More
Boeing’s bold ambition
Subscription Required Introduction Sept. 25, 2017, © Leeham Co.: The ambitious plan of Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to grow after-market services from today’s $14bn in revenues to $50bn in 5-10 Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing Global Services. years… Read More
Assessing the 25 YOA aircraft factor
Subscription Required Introduction Click on image to enlarge. Sept. 21, 2017 © Leeham Co.: Airbus and Boeing look ahead to 2021 and the next several years when wide-body aircraft begin turning 25 years old to spur orders for… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Electric aircraft, Part 13
September 22, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: After 12 articles about electric aircraft, it’s time to wrap up. We will go through what we have learned and discuss future developments. Our designs were aimed for the next decade and the… Read More