Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 4. Propulsive efficiency April 19, 2024
- Boeing unlikely to meet FAA’s 90-day deadline for new safety program April 18, 2024
- Focus on quality not slowing innovation, says GKN April 18, 2024
- Boeing defends 787, 777 against whistleblower charges April 17, 2024
- Dissecting Boeing CEO’s statement next new airplane will cost $50bn April 15, 2024
Boeing 777X engineering assigned outside Washington State
The Seattle Times, Reuters and others are reporting that Boeing has decided to assign 777X engineering outside the State of Washington. The news went down like the proverbial lead balloon in Seattle. The fear, of course, is that… Read More
Right-to-Work, Creepy and Right-to-Worse in Washington State
No column we’ve written has gotten more attention outside the blogosphere than the one in which we concluded that if Washington State is to truly become competitive with the South, it needs to become a Right-to-Work state. Gov…. Read More
Boeing, SPEEA in-fighting continues
Boeing yesterday said it would be cutting more engineer jobs. Boeing’s engineers’ union, SPEEA, was quick to fire back. Boeing’s message: The following message was sent today from Mike Delaney, VP of Engineering for Commercial Airplanes, to all… Read More
McNerney on unions and other stuff; where will 777X be built?
Note to Readers wishing to comment: See this article and our Comment #35 and be forewarned. Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is cited in the Puget Sound Business Journal on labor unions, China and other stuff from his appearance… Read More
SPEEA Accepts Boeing contract
It’s over–for four years. From SPEEA: SEATTLE – Technical workers at The Boeing Company have approved a new four-year contract, putting an end to negotiations that have lasted nearly one year. Votes tallied Monday (March 18) by the Society… Read More
Odds and Ends: Second SPEEA vote results tomorrow night; Big LionAir-Airbus order finally ready
SPEEA vote tomorrow night: Update: Tomorrow is now today; the SPEEA vote results will be counted tonight (Monday). The revote by SPEEA technical workers will be counted Monday night. Technical workers rejected the best and final offer from… Read More
SPEEA contract vote results in: Split decision
Update, Feb 20: SPEEA issued corrected vote totals; see below. If negotiations fail to reach a contract for the Technical unit and they were to strike, the Professional unit cannot strike but neither can they replaced the Techies…. Read More
SPEEA-Boeing contract vote count underway-and we are there
It’s Tuesday evening, Feb. 19, and we are at SPEEA headquarters to watch the ballot counting on the contract vote offered by Boeing. It’s 6:25pm and it’s too soon to spot a trend. However, as we watched the… Read More
787 battery diagrams
Boeing Monday (Feb. 18) made available two battery diagrams for the 787 lithium-ion batteries. Diagram #1 Diagram #2 The New York Times has a Reuters article revealing the second battery on the ANA 787 had some swelling. Boeing… Read More