First flight of Universal Hydrogen Dash 8 opens new era, company says

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton March 6, 2023, © Leeham News: Universal Hydrogen (UH2) last week took off with its demonstrator aircraft for what it believes is the beginning of a new era. The first flight of a… Read More

Universal Hydrogen’s first flight nears

Universal Hydrogen nears first flight of containerized fueling concept. Eviation’s Alice all-electric airplane offers another option for clean skies. Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Feb. 27, 2023, © Leeham News: Universal Hydrogen (UH2) is just days away from… Read More

Universal Hydrogen could be first with Hydrogen Airliner

Subscription required By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Dec. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: Universal Hydrogen (UH2) is perhaps weeks away from its first flight of a demonstrator that equips a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 with tanks… Read More

HOTR: China-US relations continue to dive

By the Leeham News team Oct. 17, 2022, © Leeham News: The G-7 meeting among the leaders of world’s top countries is next month. There were hopes that the USA’s President Biden and China’s President Xi would meet… Read More

Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, ATR orders at Day Two of Farnborugh

By Alex Derber (c) Airfinance Journal, July 19, 2022 Commercial aircraft – Airline investor 777 Partners placed firm orders for 30 737 Max 8200 aircraft and agreed to a further 36 commitments for the high-density Max model. The… Read More

Forecast 2022: ATR has monopoly, De Havilland looks to hydrogen and Embraer lurks with new design

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Introduction Jan. 31, 2022, © Leeham News: ATR is now effectively the only turboprop manufacturer outside of China and Russia in the 40-80 seat sector.  The models are the ATR… Read More

Pontifications: Engines drive timing of new Embraer TPNG

The first report appeared Oct. 18, 2021. Oct. 25, 2021, © Leeham News: Embraer appears marching toward launching a new turboprop aircraft next year with a targeted 2027 entry into service. The timing will be determined by the… Read More

De Havilland to pause production this year after backlog built

By Scott Hamilton Jan. 12, 2021, © Leeham News: De Havilland Canada will pause production later this year when the current Dash 8-400 backlog is assembled. According to data reviewed by LNA, there are 17 Dash 8s scheduled… Read More

Pontifications: Outlook 2021 Series begins today

Jan. 4, 2021, © Leeham News: Beginning today through next week, Leeham News presents its annual Outlook series for the coming year. We’ve been doing this for years. In recent years, the Outlook reflected continued growth in commercial… Read More

Podcast: 10 Minutes About Embraer’s Turboprop

Dec. 7, 2020, (c) Leeham News: Embraer studies whether to develop a new generation turboprop to compete with and replace the ATR-72 and De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400. Both of these airplanes were designed in the 1980-90s, although… Read More