Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 3.

August 15, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about recent ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New project talks about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 2.

August 8, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New projects talk about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster than… Read More

Aircraft Certification: How the Max crashes changed everything

Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team The Airbus A321XLR got caught up in the new aircraft certification environment created by the Boeing 737 MAX crisis. Source: Airbus. July 18, 2024, © Leeham News: Much of the attention… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 51. Wrap up

March 22, 2024, ©. Leeham News: Last week we did the first part of the Wrap-up of our 50 article series about the New Aircraft Technologies that can be used when replacing our present single-aisle airliners. Now, we… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 50. Wrap up.

March 15, 2024, ©. Leeham News: We started the series a year ago about the New Aircraft Technologies that can be used when replacing our present single-aisle airliners. We have covered a lot, including the typical development phases,… Read More

Bjorn’ s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 44. Operation and Continued Airworthiness

January 5, 2024, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of a new airliner program. After covering the Design and Production, we now look at the Operational phase of a new airliner family. For the customer,… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 41. Production learning curve

December 08, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, the manufacturing of prototypes, and their roles in Flight Tests, we now look at… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 38. Flight tests

November 17, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design and the manufacturing of prototypes and their roles, we now look deeper at… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 38. Flight test aircraft

November 10, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing. Today, we look at the different… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 37. First flight test prototype

November 3, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing, Figure 1. Today, we look at… Read More