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Leeham News and Analysis
- China bans Boeing, US parts imports in tariff war April 15, 2025
- Boeing welcomes COMAC competition as Asia-Pacific demand soars April 15, 2025
- How good is the C929? April 14, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 17. April 11, 2025
- Uncertainty plagues airline, aerospace, lessor industries over tariffs April 10, 2025
The Small Airliner Problem, Part 7. How affected are Green airliners?
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm June 8, 2023, © Leeham News: We have analyzed the costs factors that make up Cash Operating Cost, COC (Fuel, Maintenance, Airway/Airport fees, Crew costs), and how these vary with different size airliners…. Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 14. Airframe for lower friction drag
May 26, 2023, ©. Leeham News: This is a summary of the article Part 14P. Airframe for lower friction drag. The article discusses in detail a Blended Wing Body (BWB) type airframe and how it reduces the wetted… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 14P. Airframe for lower friction drag
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm May 26, 2023, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 14. Airframe for lower friction drag. It discusses in detail the Blended Wing Body (BWB) type of airframe that shall… 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
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 2. Target markets.
March 3, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We started a series last week that will look at what environmental and air traffic economy improvements we can get with traditional aeronautical technology developments. Before we look at technology, we must… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Aircraft technology developments. Part 1.
February 24, 2023, ©. Leeham News: In the Sustainable Air Transport series we finished last week, we described new aircraft technologies developed to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. There was one area we didn’t discuss, the progress… Read More
What is the ticket price influence of SAF? Part 2
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Feb. 16, 2023, © Leeham News: Last week, we looked at the ticket price influence if airline fuel costs would increase going forward, either through increased use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, SAF, or… Read More
What would be the ticket price influence of SAF?
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm Feb. 9, 2023, © Leeham News: I have the last weeks described the difference between Jet fuel and SAF, or Sustainable Aviation Fuel, in my Friday Corners. We could see it has emission… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 50. eVTOL production volumes.
December 16, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we looked at the production costs of our typical eVTOL. We could see that it was far higher than Joby’s assumption of $1.3m for the S4, about three times higher… Read More
Universal Hydrogen could be first with Hydrogen Airliner
Subscription required By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm Dec. 15, 2022, © Leeham News: Universal Hydrogen (UH2) is perhaps weeks away from its first flight of a demonstrator that equips a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 with tanks… Read More