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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 18. April 18, 2025
- Natilus: Composite BWB, entry-into-service by 2029, 570 on order April 17, 2025
- 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: 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
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 31. Detailed design -3
September 22, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we discussed program management methods for the Detailed design phase of an airliner development program. While the modern Agile work methods suit smaller projects, the sheer size and complexity of… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 30. Detailed design -2
September 15, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we described the beginning of the Detailed design phase of an airliner development program. We discussed the importance of a good information set from Preliminary design, ideally as a collection… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 29. Detailed design
September 8, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We described the Preliminary design phase of an airliner development program over the last weeks. Now our project is transitioning into Detailed design. It’s the most challenging part of the project as… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 28. Alternative Preliminary design
September 1, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We described the Preliminary design phase of an airliner development program last week. One could say this was the classical way that aircraft projects conduct Preliminary design. There is a different way… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 26. Airliner development program
August 18, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We started last week to look at how to make the development of a new airliner family more efficient. First, we describe how development projects are phased and how many people with… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 25. Efficient development
August 11, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We have described a number of technological advances that can be used to make the next-generation airliners more efficient and, thus, more environmentally friendly. Part of developing more efficient next-generation aircraft is… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: New aircraft technologies. Part 23. Efficient flight speeds
July 28, 2023, ©. Leeham News: We touched on efficient flight speeds in Part 21, but it was focused on fuel efficiency and how new technologies require the airliner to fly at new altitude-speed combinations to maximise the… Read More