Canada's Bombardier Just Built A Jet That's SHAKING The Entire Aviation Industry
Walter Briggs
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In the winter of 1934, a Quebec mechanic couldn't get his sick little boy through the snow to a hospital in time. That mechanic was Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and the machine he went on to build to cross the snow started a company that would one day build the fastest business jet in the world.
This is the story of how Bombardier got from Valcourt to the sound barrier. It runs from the B7 snow bus and the Ski-Doo to Montreal Metro and New York subway cars, then to Canadair, the Challenger and the CRJ. Then comes the CSeries gamble that nearly broke the company and ended with Airbus renaming it the A220, followed by the great sell-off that left Bombardier with one business: jets. It ends with a 2021 test flight where a Bombardier business jet broke the sound barrier, and the Global 8000 that came out of it. It's the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde, with an 8,000-nautical-mile range, and it entered service in December 2025. We also cover whether it really "shook the industry."
Research sources: Bombardier, Business Jet Traveller, Royal Aeronautical Society, AirInsight, Simple Flying, U.S. International Trade Commission.
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The Concorde stopped flying because the French stopped making certain parts that were needed for regular maintenance. The " Elite Jet Set " refused to fly Air France after the French Concorde crash but the British Concordes flew solidly booked in advance.
Machineco, had the privilege of supplying older machine-tools like lathes and milling machines in the historical movie (2 part TV series)
on the early and later history of the Bombardier snowmobile. I recall once as a teenager.about 6 of us were being towed on skis across
a snow covered lake with an eariler Bombardier passener-carrying snowmobile, the B7. (or a B12?) It was quite the machine.
There still a few around, opearting here and there out in the country, 70 years later.
In many parts of Quebec cities, on the streets in winter. we still see some Bombardier sidewalk skidsteer snowplows with left or right angling
4 foot plows .We have one sitting in our yard, which I drove- once- into a concrete barrier! Forgot to fasten the seat belt!
Canada's Bombardier Just Built A Jet That's SHAKING The Entire Aviation Industry
Walter Briggs
17,676 views
In the winter of 1934, a Quebec mechanic couldn't get his sick little boy through the snow to a hospital in time. That mechanic was Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and the machine he went on to build to cross the snow started a company that would one day build the fastest business jet in the world.
This is the story of how Bombardier got from Valcourt to the sound barrier. It runs from the B7 snow bus and the Ski-Doo to Montreal Metro and New York subway cars, then to Canadair, the Challenger and the CRJ. Then comes the CSeries gamble that nearly broke the company and ended with Airbus renaming it the A220, followed by the great sell-off that left Bombardier with one business: jets. It ends with a 2021 test flight where a Bombardier business jet broke the sound barrier, and the Global 8000 that came out of it. It's the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde, with an 8,000-nautical-mile range, and it entered service in December 2025. We also cover whether it really "shook the industry."
Research sources: Bombardier, Business Jet Traveller, Royal Aeronautical Society, AirInsight, Simple Flying, U.S. International Trade Commission.
#Bombardier #Global8000 #Aviation #BusinessJet #Canada #Inventions #AviationHistory #Engineering