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The state of alternative propulsion aircraft? Part 2.
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm November 20, 2025, © Leeham News: In our series about alternative propulsion aircraft, we started last week by discussing what happened after the trigger by the Airbus E-fan flight in 2014 and the… Read More
What’s the status of the alternative propulsion projects for air transport?
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm November 13, 2025, © Leeham News: The interest for new and more environmentally friendly aircraft got underway in 2014, when Airbus flew the battery-electric E-fan demonstrator at the Farnborough Air Show in July,… Read More
What’s the next new aircraft, Part 4
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required July 28, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 4 of our five-part series on examining the potential next generation of aircraft in the coming decades, we take a closer look at Aircraft 5… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 32. Epilogue.
July 25, 2025, ©. Leeham News: In October last year, we began a series on how air transport is performing against the emission goals for the year 2050. The ambition to reduce and eventually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 31, Conclusions.
July 18, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We have done a Corner series on the state of actions to mitigate the global warming impact from Air Transport. Now, we start to summarize what we’ve learned. During the series, we… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 30.
July 11, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We feature a Corner series on the state of actions to mitigate the global warming impact from Air Transport. We try to understand why different developments have been slow. In the last… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 29.
July 4, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We feature a Corner series on the state of actions to mitigate the global warming impact from Air Transport. We try to understand why different developments have been slow. In the last… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 27.
June 20, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We have examined different ways… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 26.
June 13, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We have examined different ways… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 25.
June 6, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a Corner series about the state of developments to improve the emission situation for Air Transport. We try to understand why development has been slow. We examined alternative, lower-emission propulsion… Read More