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’s secrets
Evening Magazine, a 30-minute feature program by KING5 TV (NBC-Seattle) aired two segments November 4 about Boeing. The first is called “Boeing’s Secrets,” a feature about places, things or companies that the ordinary Joe doesn’t ordinarily know about… Read More
Updating the KC-X competition
Update: The Mobile Press Register has this story saying that the USAF won’t include the WTO dispute in the KC-X competition because WTO rules prohibit doing so while the case is pending–something we’ve been telling the doggone politicians… Read More
787 Line 2 Post Mortem
The Background It had been a long time coming. Boeing’s 787 repeated delays and great backlog meant that the company had to have a second production line to catch up and to offer delivery positions within reasonable time… Read More
Polling on Boeing
With the siting of 787 Line 2 in Charleston, we’ve created several polls to gauge opinion. These are unscientific, to be sure: anyone can vote, as opposed to a specified cross-section of respondents. But we think the results… Read More
How SC won the Boeing deal
This 5-page story (when printed out) picked up by several SC newspapers tells how Boeing selected Charleston for Line 2 and it paints a very different picture than the one in the previous post of the Everett Herald… Read More
Boeing talks a sham: newspaper
Update: Boeing spokesman Tim Healy provided this response to us when we asked about the article: “We were utterly serious about reaching an agreement. And we told the IAM quite precisely what we needed from them and when.”… Read More
Dueling Messages: Boeing vs IAM
The spin wars continue. Earlier today Boeing issued a message to employees explaining, from its perspective, why a deal with the IAM could not be reached. A few hours later, the IAM 751 responded. We have both after… Read More
787 Line 2 aftermath
Update, Oct. 30: We’ll be posting our post mortem Monday, Nov. 2. This isn’t the post mortem we’re working on but there is a lot of traffic to this site today, obviously looking for some thoughts, so here… Read More
Wake up call? C’mon
The Seattle Times called Boeing’s decision to locate 787 Line 2 in Charleston a “wake up call.” So did a few others. C’mon. Boeing has been leaving Puget Sound (Seattle) for decades, step-by-step. We predicted in April Line… Read More
In other news: Northrop hints at exiting KC-X competition
We were waiting for this: see this story.