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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
The Small Airliner Problem, Part 10. Cash costs for a battery-based airliner
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 6, 2023, © Leeham News: In our series on costs factors that make up Cash Operating Cost for a battery-based airliner with range extenders, we now add Crew costs and Airport/Airway fees…. Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 13. Later in the Prelaunch Phase
July 23, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we went through the initial tasks in the Prelaunch Phase. We talked about Sales and Marketing activities, initial Concept development, and first Supplier contacts. Now that time has passed, we… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of airliner development. Part 11. The Program Plan.
July 9, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Now that we have done the basic market research we should scope the program. To do this we need to understand what aircraft we will develop and to what certification rules. Our… Read More
Pontifications: Electric aircraft builder poised to start production near Everett
By Bryan Corliss Jan. 18, 2021 © Leeham News — Western Washington aviation enthusiasts may need to send out an extra Valentine this year, addressed to Alice – the nine-passenger electric aircraft being developed by Eviation. Sometime around… Read More