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Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?
zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner.
As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."
Heard a sonic boom- knocked our dominos game off the table .... Ban Concords :)
Everything can be remotely administered, why, just SSH into,
Ahh, nevermind.
for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner
Er, for that kind of money you might as well pick up a used F-14 Tomcat. It may not have a cushy interior and cleverly-shaped bourbon dispensers, but show me another corporate transport that mounts Phoenix missiles. You'll be envied (and feared) by all your rivals chugging around in those wimpy Learjets.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
That's a rethorical question, right? This is Slashdot, ofcourse they're taking potshots at MS for absolutely no reason.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
So we went to this bar up in Vancover and there was a sign at the front that said "cover charge : $4 American, $6 Canadian" and my blonde friend said "why would anyone admit to being a Canadian?". <rimshot>
Paul Allen comissioned a barge to land his helicopter on - because it was on water, it skirted the local laws banning helicopters. Rumor has it that some guy with home-made model rockets put an end to that idea.
Oh, stop flattering yourself.
I'm well off. I've got a PhD in Physics and I'm currently a founding member of a semiconductor spin-off firm that's about to make profit for the first time next year.
Yet, I've got no problem when it comes to paying my 30% income tax that's being used to pay for the excellent public health care, public transportation and public services. As a result there's no population living below the poverty line, the unemployment level is 5.7%, literacy out of total population is 100% and I believe this achievement is certainly worth defending! If it means accepting that there will be people who'll abuse the system, so be it. It's the same thing as with the western legal systems where it's preferable that a criminal escapes punishment than an innocent gets punished. To my mind, protecting and helping the less fortunate is a worthwhile goal even if it means that some people will abuse this generosity.
Is it just because my mindset, being a native to a northern European country where the function of the society still is seen as "to take care and protect the weak" instead of "to protect the interests of the wealthy", is so different?
That's what I was thinking...and whenever the CEO makes a statement, he can press a button for some incidental music! Or maybe rimshots whenever someone says something stupid. Think of the possibilities for humiliation of your subordinates!
Sure, I've been tempted by corporate jets in the past, but they were never quite right for me.
Too slow or too big or too cramped or too something or the other.
These new supersonic jets sound like just the ticket.
Wonder how much I can get for my old Plymouth Laser in trade? It needs a new clutch, and the radio is, um, random, but it runs ok if you ignore the oil smake starting out.
Hope they'll give me plenty, because I'll need to keep the monthly payments down.
MSAirforce One 2002
The aforementioned Citation X is about 100 knots (or 25%) faster than a typical commercial flight, and you can arrive at a general aviation airport about 15 minutes before takeoff.
So you can keep taking off and landing and move further and further back into the past? Now thats a neat plane, guess it doesn't matter how fast it actually moves through the air if its got a flux capacitor fitted.
probably a country where the US sends its troops in to protect their butts :)
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