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- Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 6. Fuselage manufacturing March 31, 2023
- Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 6P. Fuselage manufacturing March 31, 2023
- MCAS, The Aircraft Certification Act and the unintended consequences of Congressional Intervention March 30, 2023
- Pontifications: Technical challenges for UAMs, et al, only part of the problems March 28, 2023
- An uneven financial recovery among OEMs and Suppliers March 27, 2023
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 5P. Optimal fuselage
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm March 24, 2023, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 5. Optimal fuselage. It discusses in detail the optimal fuselage for an airliner with 250 seats using different architectures and… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 4P. Fuselage trades
Subscription required March 17, 2023, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to New aircraft technologies. Part 4. Fuselage trades. It discussed in detail the trades involved in designing a fuselage of an airliner with 250 seats… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Aircraft technology developments. Part 1.
February 24, 2023, ©. Leeham News: In the Sustainable Air Transport series we finished last week, we described new aircraft technologies developed to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. There was one area we didn’t discuss, the progress… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 5. Fundamentals recap.
February 4, 2021, ©. Leeham News: We did a simple reality check on two high-profile ideas for Sustainable Air Transport last week, the Eviation Alice project and Heart Aerospace’s ES-19. We now look at energy usage when performing… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 34. Wrap-up.
December 17, 2021, ©. Leeham News: As we wrap up the series where we look at the monumental work you have to do to get a new aircraft type certified, we will discuss how we need several aircraft… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 33. Multi-country Certification
December 10, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Our aircraft has now achieved its first deliveries and is Entering Into Service (EIS) with our launch customer. This covers one customer and one jurisdiction. As each country is sovereign in Airworthiness… Read More
A short history of production system development
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Dec. 6, 2021, © Leeham News: Long ago, aircraft were simple, made of steel tubing, wood, and fabric. Engineering staffs were small, and the craftsmen building them had little need for… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 32. Aircraft delivery and EIS
December 3, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we went through typical problems by the start of serial production, such as weight creep and traveled work. Now we discuss the ins and outs of delivering the aircraft to… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 31. Serial Production problems
November 26, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we started our analysis of the serial production phase. If development is filled with revelations and problems to solve, production has it as well. We start this week by looking… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 30. Serial Production
November 19, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we described how we finished the testing and the process to get our Type Certificate. Now we look at the phase after Design and Production certification, the start of production,… Read More
