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Jon Ostrower Profile picture
@jonostrower
Jul 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I want to tell you a story about aviation and vice presidential picks.
Aviation holds no secrets. In 2004, a worker spotted a Kerry-Edwards decal being affixed to the Kerry Campaign 757 inside paint hangar the day before the John Edwards announcement.
In 2008, I spotted a Netjets flight plan flying between Chicago-Midway to Wilmington, DE. The plane was carrying the Obama Campaign’s advance team the day prior to Joe Biden being announced as Obama’s VP pick. web.archive.org/web/2013040621…
N863QS, a Hawker 800, flew on to Scranton, PA the next day where Biden was born and then on to Denver for the Democratic National Convention. web.archive.org/web/2013040621…
In 2012, I spotted Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan looking to cover his tracks on the way to the Norfolk, VA announcement rally with Mitt Romney. He crossed with his family into Illinois for a private jet flight to Elizabeth City, N.C. and drove to nearby VA.
2016 was weird. Because 2016.
In 2020, who knows if flying will spill the secret Joe Biden's running mate, but just remember, there’s always an aviation angle.

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A couple of early observations on the first day of the @IAM751 strike at @Boeing. First, this 2024 contract (which had the leadership's blessing) failed by a greater margin compared to the last time the machinists went on strike. In 2008, 87% voted to strike. In 2024 it was 96%.
Second, there was a major difference in the mood of then union members at the hall and on the picket lines just after midnight last night. I went back and listened to my audio from the 2008 contract vote. There was intense, white hot anger from the assembled crowd back then.
Last night, there was anger, but it was far more subdued by comparison -- and also focused. It's not that the union is any less militant in its approach, but I think the context for 2024 is inherently different than 2008.
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The families of the twin 737 Max crashes today received the following letter from the DOJ regarding its determination that Boeing was in breach of its 2020 deferred prosecution agreement.

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"The Department has determined that Boeing breached its obligations...by failing to design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations."
Boeing confirms it's been notified of the breach: "We can confirm that we received a communication today from the Justice Department, stating that the Department has made a determination that we have not met our obligations under our 2021 deferred prosecution agreement,...
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Aug 16, 2022
I am pleased to report that with 25 years of reflection, I have always been me. June 1997: 7th grade English class project was to publish your own magazine, fake ads and all. Before there was @theaircurrent. Before there was FlightBlogger. There was SpaceWorld.
@theaircurrent Oh yeah, we had a website. It’s not there anymore. (I checked) All “published” a month before Pathfinder and Sojourner landed on Mars.
I’ve just started going through about 8 big boxes of stuff from my childhood that arrived last week from Boston. A whole lot of airplane photos that are now only good with 20 years of nostalgia attached. Grainy ACA 328Jet at Logan anyone?
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How did we get here?

The rumblings of a ~300 airplane Airbus deal date back to fall 2020, but all indications at that point suggested it would wait until after the U.S. presidential election. It was clear that the Max was a pawn in the geopolitical game. theaircurrent.com/china/737-max-…
In the closing days of the Trump administration, U.S. policy underwent a major shift that largely derailed China's own move toward cultivating a home-grown commercial aircraft capability to fly alongside Boeing & Airbus. theaircurrent.com/china/chinas-c…
In the opening months of the Biden Administration, the relationship between the U.S. and China got its first face-to-face test. It didn't go well. theaircurrent.com/china/us-china…
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Mar 2, 2022
We need to stop for moment and take stock of the abject evisceration of the Russian commercial aircraft fleet and airline market that is currently taking place.
Prior to the sanctions, Russia had one of the most active domestic aviation operations, a global highlight in an otherwise ailing airline market with the two-year pandemic. The market was actually ABOVE 2019 levels of traffic last summer.
Both Airbus and Boeing have announced suspension of parts and services to the Russian fleet, effectively cutting off maintenance support to Russian airlines. Local airlines have some capability to service their own, but they will quickly become paperweights.
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Feb 19, 2022
A lot of folks are going to be watching Downfall this weekend, the new @netflix documentary on the 737 Max. I had a chance to be a part of the film, offering technical & historical context drawn from my time reporting on Boeing. I wanted to share some additional reading.
November 7, 2018: Boeing issues 737 Max fleet bulletin on AoA warning after Lion Air crash theaircurrent.com/aviation-safet…
March 12, 2019: The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max theaircurrent.com/industry-strat…
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