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Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing reports mixed results of latest employee survey, but middle management and officers remain key obstacles April 22, 2025
- Hopes for 1Q financial progress turns into bumpy ride for Boeing April 21, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
Assessing Bombardier commercial programs
Subscription Introduction Jan. 30, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Bombardier hopes to land a major, blue-chip order for its CSeries this year but otherwise isn’t counting on significant orders for its flagship airliner. Officials don’t have available delivery slots… Read More
Posted on January 30, 2017 by Scott Hamilton
Bjorn’s Corner: Geared turbofans
January 13, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: The time has come to go through the reasons why some turbofan engines are designed with a gearbox between the fan and the low pressure shaft. The principle design is shown in… Read More
Posted on January 13, 2017 by Bjorn Fehrm
Bjorn’s Corner: Turbofan developments in 2017
January 06, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: Before we finish of our series on airliner turbofan technology, let’s spend this Corner on what will happen on the airliner engine front during 2017. While there is no totally new engine that… Read More
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Bjorn Fehrm
US, EU ignore Chinese, Russian subsidies
Nov. 15, 2016, © Leeham Co.: Government subsidies to commercial aircraft companies appear to be increasing despite the 12-year disputes before the World Trade Organization between Europe and the US over Airbus and Boeing aid. Yet the US… Read More
Posted on November 15, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
CSeries out of London City Airport, Part 2. UPDATED 2017.01.24
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required. Introduction This article, which was published on the 14 November, has been updated with new information from Bombardier. The range of the CS100 from London City airport has increased due to improved performance from… Read More
Posted on November 14, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Bombardier 3Q2016 earnings: revenue down, performance up
Nov. 10, 2016, (c) Leeham Co.: Bombardier reported 3Q2016 and nine months results reflecting lower revenues as downsizing businesses and cost-cutting took effect. Revenues for the current quarter were $3.7bn vs $4.1bn. For the nine months, revenues were… Read More
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
Flying the CSeries
By Bjorn Fehrm November 09, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: After my preparations at Bombardier (BBD) in Montreal, it was time to take an early flight to BBD’s test center in Wichita (KS) the next day. We spent the afternoon… Read More
Posted on November 9, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Preparing to fly the CSeries
By Bjorn Fehrm November 03, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: We were invited to Bombardier (BBD) in Montreal last week for a series of special events. The visit had three purposes: attend the roll out of airBaltic’s CS300 (reported here),… Read More
Posted on November 3, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Visit to Bombardier for airBaltic CS300 roll-out
By Bjorn Fehrm October 27, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: This week we have been at Bombardier (BBD) Mirabel Airport outside Montreal to observe the roll out of the airBaltic CS300 CSeries model and to later test fly the aircraft… Read More
Posted on October 27, 2016 by Bjorn Fehrm
Pontifications: A good week for Boeing wide-bodies
Oct. 17, 2016, © Leeham Co.: Boeing had a very good week for wide-body orders last week. It recorded 42 orders for the 787 and 10 for the 777-300ER. Thirty of the former and all of the latter… Read More
Posted on October 17, 2016 by Scott Hamilton
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