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The name is both great and awful at the same time.

• lostlogin 6y ago
  Will it be the passengers or the employees that get referred to as ‘Boomers’?
  • Koshkin 6y ago
    Yeah, they should have simply named the company Zoomersonic.
  • jandrese 6y ago
    Boomers are the only people who will be able to afford seats anyway.
  • WWLink 6y ago
    No, they'll be referred to as boomernauts
• tupac_speedrap 6y ago
  I feel like they are playing themselves here. The NIMBYs only need to look at the company name and know they don't want that near their back yard.
  • raldi 6y ago
    The plane will be known by the product name, not the company name. >99% of the public couldn't tell you the name of the company that built the Concorde.
    • speedgoose 6y ago
      If the name of one of the companies making the concorde was Boom, I'm very sure people would know it.
    • bb611 6y ago
      In fairness to the public, the two companies involved in producing Concorde have each changed names 3+ times after merging with other major aircraft and industrial concerns, and are each now fading memories as part of the two largest European aerospace & defense conglomerates. I'd actually wager a significant portion of the population would correctly say Airbus, but for the wrong reasons - it's the only French aerospace company they can think of. I did a straw poll among some friends and got a lot of "I don't know what that is. Do you mean the grape?"
• rbanffy 6y ago
  It's reminiscent of an ancient sci-fi series, Fireball XL-5. Who names a rocket "Fireball"?