Safety
Fort Worth Brings Record for Bombardier Safety Standdown
While in a new location, this year's Bombardier Safety Standdown brings back perennial favorites as they drive home the theme Elevate Your Standards.
Dr. Tony Kern of Convergent Performance speaks at the 2019 Bombardier Safety Standdown in Fort Worth Texas. Keeping to this year's Safety Standdown theme of "Elevate Your Standards," he explained what it takes to move something at rest to a new and higher position. (Photo: Bombardier Aviation)
Dr. Tony Kern of Convergent Performance speaks at the 2019 Bombardier Safety Standdown in Fort Worth Texas. Keeping to this year's Safety Standdown theme of "Elevate Your Standards," he explained what it takes to move something at rest to a new and higher position. (Photo: Bombardier Aviation)

Bombardier kicked off its 23rd annual Safety Standdown this morning for the first time in Fort Worth, Texas, drawing a crowd of more than 500 and maintaining a focus on this year’s theme: "Elevate Your Standards." The location marked a departure from the decades Bombardier has hosted the event in Wichita, but Bombardier demo pilot and Safety Standdown host Franco Pietracupa opened the three-day event informing attendees that “you are in the record books” by filling all available slots within eight days of the opening of registration this past August.