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Pontifications: Boeing’s latest forecast raises more doubt than hope
Oct. 12, 2020, © Leeham News: Every year, like clockwork, when Boeing publishes its 20-year Current Market Outlook, there is always another upward revision in forecast demand for new aircraft. So, when the Chicago-based OEM admits that demand… Read More
A lost decade for aircraft manufacturers, suppliers
Subscription Required Now open to all Readers Introduction By Judson Rollins, Bjorn Fehrm & Scott Hamilton Sept. 21, 2020, © Leeham News: Commercial aviation is facing a lost decade due to COVID. Yes, most forecasts target 2024-2025 as… Read More
Looking ahead for 2020 and 2030 decades: COMAC
Subscription Required Third in a series. By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction July 1, 2020, © Leeham News: COMAC stands for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. It was spun off from the equally state-owned military and civil aeronautical giant… Read More
2020 Outlook for Airbus, Boeing, et al
Subscription required Introduction By the Leeham News team. Jan. 2, 2020, © Leeham News: This will be a pivotal year for Boeing. It will be a year of challenges for Airbus. Embraer Commercial Aviation should disappear. Mitsubishi Heavy… Read More
2019 Outlook: COMAC’s slow but steady progress
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 4, 2019, © Leeham News: This is not the year where China’s COMAC will have break-out progress for the C919, its challenge to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. Flight testing is slow and… Read More
Chinese and Russian Widebody takes shape. Part 3.
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction January 25, 2018, © Leeham Co.: In the second article about the new Chinese/Russian widebody, CR929, we looked at the size of the aircraft and its passenger capacity. The CR929 can be… Read More
United Aircraft’s and COMAC’s eventful year
By Bjorn Fehrm January 03, 2018, ©. Leeham Co: Both United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and COMAC got their single-aisle airliner projects into flight test during 2017. The MC-21 and C919 had their first flights within less than a month… Read More
MC-21 and C919 compared. Part 3.
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required. Introduction June 15, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: We continued the comparison of Irkut’s MC-21 and COMAC’s C919 last week with an analysis of the cabins and systems. The week before, we compared project time… Read More