Local people:
Charles Bombardier is the grandson – and one of the heirs – of the Quebecer who mastered winter, J.-Armand Bombardier, father of the Ski-Doo, genius inventor, legendary entrepreneur and ancestor of one of the greatest industrial families in the country.
He publishes on the Internet concepts (about two per month) of cars, motorcycles, planes, boats of all kinds. His website charlesbombardier.com already contains about 40 ideas for futuristic vehicles. >>>
He received the award for Most Innovative Person in Industrial Design at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit in New York. With the Imaginactif organization, he promotes the sharing of ideas and invention projects on the web, instead of keeping them secret. Charles Bombardier explains to Catherine Perrin that creativity runs in the family.
The Solexa is a personal flying vehicle (PFV) concept that uses a fuel cell to power six motorized fans. With a range of five to 20 minutes, it could be used to travel around the city, explore the backcountry, provide surveillance or even be used as a recreational vehicle. >>>
“The fact that I publish my ideas doesn’t hurt Bombardier at all, obviously. What it does is give the innovators, the designers, ideas, which in turn allows them to start developing ideas internally,” says Charles Bombardier, who is no longer employed by the family business. “So I influence them, I inspire them. I recently received an email from someone who built one of my scaled-down prototypes – the Nunavik, a transport plane that hovers above the ground. It warmed my heart to see that I had managed to inspire someone to that extent.”
Listen to the radio interview: Charles Bombardier: a prestigious award for open innovation | Médium large | ICI Radio-Canada Première
Imaginactive’s website serves as a platform to disseminate as widely as possible its concepts, which it created with an industrial designer. He also works with various media, such as The Globe and Mail and Wired magazine.
“Some of my concepts make me look a little crazy to my peers,” says the mechanical engineer from Valcourt. Crazy ideas, certainly, that nevertheless catch on as evidenced by his weekly column published in the Drive section of the Globe & Mail since 2013. These are mainly concepts related to transportation modes. The Skreemr, a supersonic plane that could eventually fly between New York and London in less than 15 minutes, is just one of those completely jumped-up ideas, published last October, that made the rounds of the world’s major media and social networks. >>>
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