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Bjorn’s Corner: Blended Wing Body Airliners. Part 7
April 24, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We are making a series of articles on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) as a potentially more efficient design for passenger-carrying airliners than the classical Tube-And-Wing (TAW) configuration. In the sixth article… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Blended Wing Body Airliners. Part 6
April 17, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We have started a series of articles on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) as a potentially more efficient design for passenger-carrying airliners than the classical Tube-And-Wing (TAW) configuration. In the fifth article… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Blended Wing Body Airliners. Part 5
April 10, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We have started a series of articles on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) as a potentially more efficient design for passenger-carrying airliners than the classical Tube-And-Wing (TAW) configuration. In last week’s article,… Read More
Boeing’s next airplane will eventually come; what will it be?
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Part 1 April 9, 2026, © Leeham News: CEO Kelly Ortberg has been clear: there won’t be any new airplane program launched until the airlines are ready, the technology is ready, and Boeing… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Blended Wing Body Airliners. Part 4
April 3, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We have started a series of articles on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) as a potentially more efficient design for passenger-carrying airliners than the classical Tube And Wing (TAW) configuration. In the… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Blended Wing Body Airliners. Part 3.
March 27, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We have started a series of articles about the Blended WingBody (BWB) as a potentially more efficient passenger-carrying airliner design than the classical Tube And Wing (TAW) configuration. In the second article… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The Blended Wing Body, BWB, Airliner. Part 1.
March 13, 2026, ©. Leeham News: The flying wing has been researched for almost 100 years. During the Second World War, the Horten Brothers developed as flying wing military aircraft in Germany with mixed success. The Northrop company then… Read More
JetZero CEO Lands A Silicon Valley Mindset at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aviation Summit
By Chris Sloan Sept. 17, 2025, © Leeham News: At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aerospace Summit, Tom O’Leary, CEO and Co-Founder of JetZero, made clear that his company is bringing something different to commercial aviation: a… Read More
What’s the next new aircraft? Part 3
By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required July 24, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 3 of our five-part series on examining the potential next generation of aircraft in the coming decades, we take a closer look… Read More
What’s the next new aircraft? Part 1
Subscription Required Part 1 of 5 By Scott Hamilton July 17, 2025, © Leeham News: Some urge Boeing to take the plunge “now” to launch a new airplane program. Institutional knowledge is slipping away, these people say. Boeing… Read More