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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 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
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 36. Prototype manufacturing and Testing
October 27, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design (Figure 1), we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing, where we today go… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 35. Prototype manufacturing and Testing
October 20, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. The typical phases and their time use and manning are described in the Gant chart in Figure 1. After covering… Read More