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"Bombardier" is French for 'bomber', an aircraft built to drop bombs; certainly a curious choice for a commercial aircraft supplier.
by WiseWeasel 11y ago
"Bombardier" is French for 'bomber', an aircraft built to drop bombs; certainly a curious choice for a commercial aircraft supplier.
- DanBC 11y agoThe company is named after Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who built his first snow vehicle at 15. http://www.bombardier.com/en/about-us/history.html http://www.bombardier.com/en/about-us/history.html > Today’s Bombardier grew out of a young mechanic’s inventive genius and entrepreneurial spirit. Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand Bombardier builds his first “snow vehicle” at the ripe age of 15. His motivation? To help people travel across the snow-covered roads of rural Québec in Canada. > In 1937, J.-Armand achieves his first major commercial success with the launch of the seven-passenger B7 snowmobile.
- WiseWeasel 11y agoSure, that's what they want you to think. That's actually a perfectly reasonable explanation of how they ended up with such a name, but it's still unfortunate.