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Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My Valentines Day present just arrived. Married up. Way up.
The collection of Boeing annual reports, internal company magazines and newsletters span the pre-WWII era through the 1960s. Pristine condition.
Stearman Contact, internal newsletter (Boeing Wichita) from June 1941 and exhibit A on things that won’t appear in corporate newsletters in 2022.
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Feb 19
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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Mar 12, 2021
Today is a very special day for my family, one I've had marked on my calendar since I was a kid.
On March 12, 1921, four Ostrower brothers aged 9 to 15 arrived with their mother, Sara, at Ellis Island. They had left a tiny village in what is today Ukraine in search of a better life. They were eager to leave a Europe ravaged by World War I and rapidly rising antisemitism.
Sara and her sons arrived in New York on the SS Savoie 100 years ago today. She was exhausted, unstable and reeling from the journey to reset her entire life after World War I.
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Mar 11, 2021
We've dropped paywall on The Air Current’s recent reporting on the Southwest/Boeing/GE 737 Max 7 deal and the hurdles to getting the deal done and all the intricate dynamics at play. bit.ly/3p9EJU5
That article was built on this foundation from Nov. 2019. Here’s your primer for the 737 Max 7 deal.

Southwest wants a small airplane from Boeing or Airbus and that could reshape aviation. bit.ly/34HedYh
But we have to go back farther, again, to April 2019 just after the Max was grounded. The unique relationship between Southwest and Boeing is at the core of understanding why it’s continuing on with the 737 Max 7 for its 150-seat fleet. bit.ly/2URG5sh
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Feb 20, 2021
Okay let’s talk engine design: If the forward fan loses a blade, the brown casing that surrounds it is designed to catch any debris without a breach. If parts of the core fail, the casing isn’t designed for containment because of the incredible internal energy.
What engine designers do is they engineer out (as best as possible) the possible causes of failure. Clearly whatever befell this engine had tremendous energy involved given the near-total disintegration of the nacelle.
Also, before takeoff while all the passengers are getting settled, the crew is preparing for this very scenario. U.S. airline SOP (and the vast majority around the world) is a detailed takeoff briefing that directly addresses engine failure and what comes next to get home safely.
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Dec 3, 2020
File this in the ‘There’s always an aviation angle’ folder. There’s a leading indicator that will definitively tell the world if President Trump has decided to leave the Presidency. It’s his airplane.
His private 757-200 (N757AF) has been stored at Stewart Airport in upstate NY since 2019. If it’s going to fly as his personal plane again, it’s going to need maintenance. It was seen
I’m told that there has been a hunt for a single Rolls-Royce RB211 engine needed for one cycle, which is to say one takeoff and one landing for the 757. airliners.net/photo/Trump/Bo…
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Oct 9, 2020
Let's go on a journey through history. (a thread) Earlier this week, @theaircurrent published a news analysis on Boeing's decision to consolidate 787 production to South Carolina. bit.ly/3lkx4B0
@theaircurrent I started my career as a journalist in 2007 trying to understand what was going on inside of Boeing and two factories in South Carolina owned by Vought Aircraft Industries and Alenia Aeronautica (now Leonardo) that built and assembled parts of the 787. bit.ly/36Qpnyb
@theaircurrent In December of that same year, with delays on the program mounting, Boeing realized that it would have to start to take control of those facilities to right the program. bit.ly/2Ie1o1U
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