Friday, October 24, 2008

Google acquires its very own fighter jet!!!


A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including its 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 L.L.C., the company that operates the private jets owned and used by Mr. Page, Mr. Brin and the 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. 

On Thursday, The Mountain View Voice reported the existence of the fighter jet, which it said had been spotted at Moffett Field. Federal aviation records confirm that H211 L.L.C. has registered a Dornier Alpha Jet made in 1982. 

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Presumably no attacks on Microsoft are planned at this time. Full story...

See also:

  1. Google, Chrome and Big Brother...
  2. Google: friendly giant or greedy goliath?
  3. Google Street View and the privacy factor... 

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