Yep, not many people know that part about Boeing!

My pleasure - thanks for watching and for the work you put into Bombardier! A lot of Canadians are proud of the aircraft, but I can only imagine how it'd feel to be working there when the sale to Airbus happened. Seeing the aircraft get such a warm reception is indeed a great, if not bittersweet feeling. Hope you stick around for future videos 😄

I have the same feelings you have. I also worked at Bombardier for 24 years, and still pissed off at that transaction, no, gift to airbus.... I am proud of what we created .... a 21 first century airplane. That reminds me the Avro Arrow project from the late 1950.........

I little bit curious about the bad executives that killed the companies. You surely know the names.

​@@naubermiranda1025 Hello Nauber. It's not as simple as the one sentence that I wrote. There were many actors at play . I obviously was not present at any of these meetings. But by simple deduction, one can easily see that they ( upper management ) were spending and spreading a lot of capital by starting 3 huge projects at once. The new global express, the new composite fuselage for the learjet and of course the C-series. Money was lost, and lots of it. The lear jet project was trashed after dumping a whooping 1.3 billion dollars. That was the same amount the government injected to keep us afloat. Anybody with any experience with managing new projects are not immune to cost overruns. Apparently they did not learn from their prior mistakes and had the arrogance to press on , which was a huge mistake for this company. We lost the new learjet, the C-series, the train division, and in the end the CRJ program ( which was sold to Mitsubishi a direct competitor for the CRJ ). So now this company went back to making only small private jets. I was a young man when Laurent Beaudoin took over Canadair. This man I am very proud of, he brought the company to never seen before heights everything went sideways slowly at first but relentlessly never stopped till our final demise... So in a sense I was lucky to see the rise of Bombardier Aéronautique , only to see it shrivel at my retirement. Big Bummer! If you really want names, I guess you will have to make some investigative research to whom was in charge in a particular year and what they did. Alain Bellemare ( CEO ) was the one who sold/gave the C-series away. I my opinion, I think he knew that the company would go belly up, and in his 5 year contract had to make it happen . Bombardier got into a huge financial problem by then and unfortunately for him, he was tasked with the ugly job of finishing off a sinking ship. Tony.

@@tonypavone9775 I can see your point, those guys did it the worse way, a terrible mess. Bombardier and the CSeries were a legit national pride to Canadians. I remember I felt sorry when they sold Embraer to Boeing. I can only imagine how angry I would be as a commited member of the staff. At least, remain the prestigious executive jet lime to remember the glory days.

Really appreciate it - definitely put some time into the research so I'm glad you liked it :)

Thanks and come say hi next time! I'll probably be wearing the hoodie 😂

Thanks Andrew, we'll keep making them!

Glad you liked it, there'll be more :)

I appreciate it, they're a lot of fun to make too :))

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Glad you enjoyed it! Whereabouts are you based? Can get a hoodie to you easier if you're in Canada :)

I think Airbus is angling for that to happen - stay tuned for part 2 :)

@@TheFlyingMooseCA they should i mean it makes perfect sense for Airbus too do so 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

haha, they might come one day

Se vc considerar só o A220-100, que é quem realmente compete com os Ejets, a surra não é tão grande. O A220-300 já não é avião regional, compete é com B737

definitely wasn't easy, said i'd pay them back one day

Congrats on winning! (put a short segment at 0:56 in part 2 of this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bs1zrMqdp9Omaac.html) - feel free to shoot me an email (in the "about" section on my channel) and we'll get in touch 😄

thanks for the heads up - I realise my lav mic has some problems and didn't use it for part 2 of the video :(

I'd wager that the decision to even "fill the gap" by making the A380 shows that Airbus believed in the future of hub - otherwise, they could've doubled down on direct designs like the A350 instead of pouring money into a superjumbo. Perhaps both manufacturers went down that route as a hedge of sorts, as nobody ever really knows how things will turn out :^)