Leeham News and Analysis
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There's more to real news than a news release.
Leeham News and Analysis
- Boeing’s new fighter award moves away from money-losing fixed price contracts March 24, 2025
- Airbus still struggles to deliver planes on time March 24, 2025
- Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 14. March 21, 2025
- How good is the COMAC C919? March 20, 2025
- Boeing CFO Brian West: OK on tariffs for now, backlogs and inventories help March 20, 2025
Bjorn’s Corner: Fly by steel or electrical wire, Part 4
August 16, 2019, ©. Leeham News: In our series about classical flight controls (“fly by steel wire”) and Fly-By-Wire (FBW or “fly by electrical wire”) we this week discuss the Flight Control System’s authority to execute maneuvers by… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Aircraft stability, Part 2
April 20, 2018, ©. Leeham News: In the last Corner, we discussed how to stabilize an aircraft in pitch so it could fly stably straight ahead. For this, we needed a horizontal tail which had a negative lift. This… Read More