Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- The Boeing 767 Cross Section, Part 1 November 24, 2022
- Movie Review: Devotion November 21, 2022
- China will accelerate development of its commercial aerospace sector November 21, 2022
- Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 46. eVTOL comparison with helicopter November 18, 2022
- The economics of a 787-9 and A330-900 at eight or nine abreast November 16, 2022
Boeing to use 10 787s for tests
Update, Sept. 2: Boeing retracts its information to Buckingham. Buckingham just put out a follow-up note to its one issued yesterday, cited below. Interesting to say the least: BA is using 2, not 4 additional aircraft for 787… Read More
Farnborough/Sunday-Boeing
The Boeing 787 arrived today at the Farnborough Air Show, a day before the event actually begins. The plane, #3–the so-called “interior airplane” equipped with an interior that is more suitable for testing operations than representative of the… Read More
New 787 delay possible
In a conference call this morning, Scott Fancher, the program head for the Boeing 787, announced the first deliveries to All Nippon Airways might slip to after the first of the year. Fancher emphasized that the schedule still… Read More
787 grounding not “safety-of-flight” issue
The temporary grounding of the Boeing 787 flight test airplanes to deal with the latest assembly issues is not a safety-of-flight issue and was not sought by the flight test crews, says Scott Fancher, program manager. The Seattle… Read More
Air India’s 787 penalty payment, 787 vs A330 efficiency
This article from India has an interesting reference to the penalties paid to Air India by Boeing (and what the airline originally wanted) for the delays of the 27 787s on order. The article also notes that Air… Read More
Air Park with A350 contract in dire financial condition
The air park selected by Spirit Aerosystems as the location for a 500,000 sf facility to produce fuselage panels for the Airbus A350 is in dire financial condition and cannot repay state bonded indebtedness, according to a newspaper… Read More
Christmas Day bombing attempt
BBC sponsored a bombing test on a retired Boeing 747 to see if the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 would have survived the Christmas Day bombing attempt. The results are surprising and may be seen here. The aluminum fuselage… Read More
787 First Flight
Update, December 15 0445 AM (Yawn): We’re up and have already done one radio interview for first flight set for 10 am today. Weather is iffy. The hourly forecast has 60% chance of rain at 8am and 50%… Read More
787 Schedule, $2.5bn charge announced
Boeing’s Press Release: Note webcast at 0700 PDT referenced at the end. The 787 is to fly by the “end of the fourth quarter” and frst flight in the 4th quarter of 2010. Production rate to 10/mo is… Read More