Three Points: 737 Max recertification trials, Comac’s ARJ21 hat trick, Airbus autonomous landings

Issue No. 29

With FAA recertification flights underway, Boeing’s last leg to service re-entry for the 737 Max has begun.
Comac makes a triple ARJ21 delivery, signaling an important new phase for the China’s aerospace manufacturing proving ground.
Airbus autonomous airliner flights trials wrap up and illustrate the different paths toward letting aircraft make their own decisions.

Jon Ostrower

Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network's global coverage of the business and operations of flying. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and 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, Ostrower was editor of the award-winning FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. 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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