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Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 50. Wrap up.
March 15, 2024, ©. Leeham News: We started the series a year ago about the New Aircraft Technologies that can be used when replacing our present single-aisle airliners. We have covered a lot, including the typical development phases,… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 42. Improving the learning curve
December 15, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of a new airliner program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, the manufacturing of prototypes, and their roles in flight tests, we now look at… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 40. The initial production crisis
December 01, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, the manufacturing of prototypes, and their roles in flight tests, we now look at… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 38. Flight tests
November 17, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design and the manufacturing of prototypes and their roles, we now look deeper at… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 38. Flight test aircraft
November 10, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing. Today, we look at the different… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 37. First flight test prototype
November 3, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design, we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing, Figure 1. Today, we look at… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 36. Prototype manufacturing and Testing
October 27, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the different design phases of an airliner development program. After covering Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed design (Figure 1), we now discuss prototype manufacturing and testing, where we today go… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 34. Design for Certification
October 13, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the Detailed design phase of an airliner development program. We have discussed program management methods, development techniques, tools for Detailed design, that improved production methods are as important as… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 33. Supply chain
October 6, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the Detailed design phase of an airliner development program. We have discussed program management methods, development techniques, tools for Detailed design and that the production methods today are as… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 32. Design for production
September 29, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We are discussing the Detailed design phase of an airliner development program. We have talked about program management methods, development techniques, and tools for Detailed design. But there is one area that… Read More