Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet… to Help NASA |...
Rated • 25 reviews • aerospace, google, politics, nasa • universetoday.com
From the page: "October 24th, 2008
Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet… to Help NASA
Written by Ian O'Neill
A Dornier Alpha Jet, similar to the one bought by Brin and Page (Adrian Pingstone)
A Dornier Alpha Jet, similar to the one bought by Brin and Page (Adrian Pingstone)
A company owned by Google's founders has just bought a 1982 light attack Dornier Alpha Jet. H211 LLC owns several aircraft that are frequently used by Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and in an "unusual" agreement signed last year, H211 managed to get the rights to operate from an airstrip ten minutes away from Google HQ near the south end of San Francisco Bay, California. This isn't any ordinary airstrip, it is Moffett Field, owned by the NASA Ames Research Center…"
