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Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 13. Preliminary Design Review, PDR.
October 24, 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
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 12. Preliminary Design; Requirements Definition.
October 17, 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
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 11. Interior Preliminary Design.
October 10, 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
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 8. Conceptual System design.
September 19, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about 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 than… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 7. Conceptual Design.
September 12, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about 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 than… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 6. IT support.
September 5, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about 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 than… Read More
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
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 43. Delivery
December 22, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of a new airliner program. After covering the Design, Prototype phase, and Production, we now look at the first deliveries. After about seven to nine years… Read More