Boeing during Farnborough will leave 737 Max and 777X test aircraft at home

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Boeing will not bring any of its commercial aircraft currently under development to next month’s Farnborough air show, the company confirmed. The 777-9, 737 Max 7 and 10 will not attend the biennial summer air show, as Boeing opts to focus its resources on completing those protracted development programs.

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“Our Commercial Airplanes team has been focused on implementing our comprehensive safety and quality plan and working to meet the commitments we’ve made to our customers. With these priorities in mind, we decided that rather than prepare and perform flight demonstrations this summer, we are redirecting the engineering and manufacturing resources toward airplane production and certification,” the company said in a statement to The Air Current.

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Jon Ostrower
Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current, where he leads coverage of the global aerospace and aviation industries. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Mr. Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network’s global coverage of the business and operations of aviation. Mr. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and a half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C., he covered Boeing, aviation safety, and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Mr. Ostrower was editor of FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. He is also an instructor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering's Aviation Safety and Security program. Mr. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.
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