How FlightBlogger became FlightBlogger

Well, it’s been one heck of a first year. The Chicago Tribune’s Julie Johnsson did a
very humbling profile on me yesterday and I wanted to share a bit of it because, really, without all of you I wouldn’t be
anywhere at all. Thank you.

Blogger gets off ground with 787
Political junkie broke news about Dreamliner delays
By Julie Johnsson – Chicago Tribune
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Blogger Jon Ostrower started out with little more than a battered Dell
laptop and a goal of detailing the creation of a groundbreaking
airplane, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

Ostrower
had neither aerospace nor journalism training. But in little more than
18 months, the 24-year-old has significantly altered how aerospace is
covered, a world in which work is cloaked in secrecy.

Writing
late at night from his Boston living room, he emerged as the go-to
source of information about the world’s first jetliner made from
superhardened plastics, breaking stories of its production woes at a
Seattle-area factory.

“This guy’s track record is almost in a
class by itself,” said Richard Aboulafia, who is among the many
aviation analysts who read Ostrower closely.

Photo Credit: Terrence Antonio James/Tribune