Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet

Ponca City, We love you writes "The NY Times reports that H211 LLC, a company controlled by Google's top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added to its fleet a Dornier Alpha Jet, a light jet attack and advanced trainer aircraft manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France. The 1982 Alpha-Jet seats two and was originally used by European air forces, but is now being sold relatively cheaply to civilians. The jet has landing rights at Moffett Field, the NASA-operated airfield that is a stone's throw from the Google campus. It is not clear who exactly flies the fighter jet, although Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is an avid pilot. If the top Googlers indeed own the fighter jet, they would be following in the footsteps of Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, who has owned several aircraft, including fighter jets."

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Re:That's right, mods

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Hmmmm. And Sarah Palin's $150,000 was also good fiscal prudence, too?

What happened with Sam Walton driving a pickup truck?

And special landing rights at Moffet? Can't go a few extra miles out of SJA? Oh, right, it needs to be near their little Boeing something.

Great corporate stewardship. And if they join Larry at Oracle, that's guilt by association.

Not intended as flame. Intended as an observation of prima facia conspicuous consumption that smacks of aristrocracy in a country that soundly, firmly, and with my ancestor's blood-- rejected aristocracy.