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Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet

Posted by kdawson on from the filing-a-flight-plan-for-redmond dept.

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."

7 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck no, it's MY money and if I want to have fun with it instead of giving it to hopeless monkey-ass savages.

    -Larry Page

  2. That's right, mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The other AC said "Just think of how many starving children in Africa they could have fed instead of buying a jet so they can show off." That was very quickly modded -1, Flamebait.

    It's flamebait but only because it's true. Quick, silence the AC with a -1! We can't be calling someone's character into question when their conspicuous consumption becomes a public spectacle! Why, if that were allowed, then something like a rejection of consumerist culture might emerge ...

    1. Re:That's right, mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      That's what happens when niggers get mod points.

    2. Re:That's right, mods by postbigbang · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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.

      --
      ---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
    3. Re:That's right, mods by yttrstein · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      No, the problem is with people like you who refuse to entertain the idea that your own selfishness and greed is influenced heavily by wealthy people in the public eye.

      Poetically, your defense of them has the same root as any defense of ridiculously wealthy people allowing their silly purchases of toys to be publicized. You either are one of them currently, or you want to be one.

      I cannot think of a more pointless thing to pursue.

  3. Re:Far out thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who the fuck cares what you are thinking.

  4. Re:Pot, meet Kettle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Kill them all. Seriously. Wipe out the entire evolutionary cul-de-sac. They're fucked. Put them out of their misery, and we can all get back to sending our charity to people who actually want to help themselves.