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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by DanBC on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:11PM (#11333674)
The company is named after Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who built his first snow vehicle at 15.

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.

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by WiseWeasel on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:18PM (#11333711)
Sure, 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.

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