Leeham News and Analysis

• Airbus announces zero-emission airliner concepts.

  By Bjorn Fehrm September 21, 2020, © Leeham News: Airbus held a webcast today, announcing three zero-emission airliner concepts called the ZEROe line (Figure 1). The two conventional designs, the turbofan airliner and the turboprop use hydrogen as... Read More

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• A lost decade for aircraft manufacturers, suppliers

  Subscription Required By Judson Rollins, Bjorn Fehrm & Scott Hamilton Sept. 21, 2020, © Leeham News: Commercial aviation is facing a lost decade due to COVID. Yes, most forecasts target 2024-2025 as returning to 2019 passenger traffic and... Read More

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• Pontifications: Last production DC-6 destined to USA

  By Scott Hamilton Sept. 21, 2020, © Leeham News: A Texas man with an affinity for the Douglas DC-6 purchased the last production model, DC-6B that is still in its original passenger configuration. The DC-6B, delivered in the... Read More

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• Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of Hydrogen. Part 9. Hydrogen Gas Turbines

  September 18, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our series on hydrogen as an energy store for airliners we analyze the conversion of the present Turbofan and Turboprop airliner engines to hydrogen as fuel instead of carbon-based fuels. We... Read More

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• Sunset of the Quads, Part 7, The A380

  Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction   All Nippon Airways' Flying Honu A380 livery Sep. 17th, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we compared the economics of the A340-600 and the 777-300ER on the Los Angeles to Shanghai route.... Read More

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• HOTR: Adjusting Airbus and Boeing orderbooks

  By the Leeham News Staff Sept. 15, 2020, © Leeham News: Boeing has removed hundreds of 737 MAX orders from its order book. While some were direct cancellations from customers, most came through ASC 606 adjustments. Airbus does... Read More

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• Pontifications: Boeing SC makes its case for 787 production consolidation—and it favors Everett

  Sept. 14, 2020, © Leeham News:  Boeing’s South Carolina 787 final assembly plant has made its case whether to consolidate production in one location, or not. The conclusion favors retaining dual assembly lines, retaining one in Everett. This... Read More

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• Why is the 737 MAX safe now when it wasn’t before?

  Subscription Required Now open to all readers. By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction   September 14, 2020, © Leeham News: The FAA and EASA Safety of Flight authorities have examined and test flown the changes Boeing has done to the 737... Read More

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• Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of Hydrogen. Part 8. Fuel cell electric or Turbofan propulsion?

  September 11, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our series on Hydrogen as an energy store for airliners we look at whether we use an LH2 burning Turbofan as propulsion or as the EU study proposed, a Parallel Hybrid... Read More

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• Sunset of the Quads, Part 6. The A340-600 versus the 777-300ER.

  Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction   September 10, 2020, © Leeham News: The Airbus A340-600 was designed to challenge Boeing’s hold of the large, long-haul jets. With a capacity 60 seats above the previous largest Airbus jet, the... Read More

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