Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 9.

February 14, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to replace or improve hydrocarbon propulsion concepts for Air Transport. We try to understand why the development has been slow. We have… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 8

February 7, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to replace or improve hydrocarbon propulsion concepts for Air Transport. We try to understand why the development has been slow. We have… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 4.

January 10, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to replace or improve hydrocarbon propulsion concepts for Air Transport. We try to understand why the development has been slow. We listed… Read More

Heart Aerospace’s revised ES-30

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm September 26, 2024, © Leeham News: Heart Aerospace has revised its environmentally friendly aircraft for the third time. The variants started in September 2020, when Heart presented an all-electric, battery-based 19-seat airliner that… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 7.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm August 24, 2023, © Leeham News: We have looked at the promises the VTOL industry made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as the VTOLs come closer to Certification and… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 3.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 27, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as they come closer to Certification and… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 2.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 20, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that VTOL OEMs made in their Investor prospects and the scale-down in capabilities as Certification comes closer. We also analyze whether the… Read More

What’s the Green aviation news at Paris 2023?

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm June 22, 2023, © Leeham News: Every announcement from aircraft deals, OEM updates, or supply chain news now has the words Sustainable/Sustainability injected in every second sentence. It doesn’t matter what the subject… Read More

The Small Airliner Problem, Part 8. A battery-based airliner

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm June 15, 2023, © Leeham News: In our series on fundamental costs factors that make up Cash Operating Cost, COC (Fuel, Maintenance, Airway/Airport fees, Crew costs), we have started analyzing if the size… Read More

The Small Airliner problem, Part 2

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 27, 2023, © Leeham News: We started a series about the viability of the business plans for small airliners (nine to 50 seats) last week in the light of a continuing decline… Read More