Google Founders Buy a Fighter Jet (Maybe)

[Matt Molnar]

NY Times:

A New (Fighter) Jet for Google’s Founders? (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-for-googles-founders/)
By Miguel Helft

UPDATED 6:45 PM Adding NASA’s comment
UPDATED 8 PM Adding Google’s comment

A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precisely a Dornier Alpha Jet. According to Wikipedia, the Alpha Jet is a a light jet attack and advanced trainer aircraft manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France.

The last time we checked on H211 LLC, the company that operates the private jets owned and used by Mr. Page, Mr. Brin and chief executive Eric Schmidt, was in October 2007. The company had just added a Boeing 757 to a fleet that already included a refurbished Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream V’s. All four planes had landing rights at Moffett Field, the NASA operated airfield that is a stone’s throw from the Google campus. [Full Article (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-for-googles-founders/)]

[Jetinder]

Is that it............ they should have got a russian SU27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27

[cancidas]

Is that it............ they should have got a russian SU27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27
it's cool to see some increased flying at Moffett, but if they feel the need they can be more than welcome to send some of that fundage to me so i can have me a PC-21:
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[T-Bird76]

Are they gearing up for their attack on Microsoft?

[Matt Molnar]

Are they gearing up for their attack on Microsoft?
To defend themselves, MS will buy a fighter that looks pretty cool but crashes once a day.