I thought they were cool buying fighter jet to fly a fighter jet. But it was NASA atmospheric research jet that they bought as part of deal to use Moffett Field. Much less cool. Which crashed in 2018. Weird thing is NASA still has a page for the Alpha Jet.
Many years ago I was friend with a middle manager at Google that told me Larry or Sergei wanted to turn the roof on one of the buildings into a helipad. The intent was to never have to walk onto the campus but just land the helicopter, get out, go down and elevator to a conference room, reverse path to the helicopter and leave. Apparently the building they wanted to do it on wasn’t structurally sound to facilitate a helipad.
You probably own something that someone else looks at and says “why would you buy that?”. A PlayStation , a mug with a cat on it, a bumper sticker about your political preferences.
You can look at all these things and ask why one such things as private citizens?
The 767 has a lot more space than Gulfstream. That means private bedroom or even whole private apartment.
I was going to say extra range, but the 767-200 only goes 3900 nm compared to Gulfstream V 6500nm.
Boeing does sell Business Jet versions of 787 and 777 which have much longer ranges. And lots more space. Could fly half way around the world without stopping staying in your flying apartment.
Disgusting. People this wealthy exist on a whole other plane (ha) of existence. No one individual works so hard as to earn multiple, giant private jets. The huge amount of natural and social resources being consumed by just a few individuals is mind-boggling. Meanwhile, people are going to freeze to death under bridges this winter because we can't seem to build enough modest affordable housing in this country.
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Many years ago I was friend with a middle manager at Google that told me Larry or Sergei wanted to turn the roof on one of the buildings into a helipad. The intent was to never have to walk onto the campus but just land the helicopter, get out, go down and elevator to a conference room, reverse path to the helicopter and leave. Apparently the building they wanted to do it on wasn’t structurally sound to facilitate a helipad.
Anyone from Google know this story?
Someone buys a commercial airliner, someone buys at $40B social media company.
You probably own something that someone else looks at and says “why would you buy that?”. A PlayStation , a mug with a cat on it, a bumper sticker about your political preferences.
You can look at all these things and ask why one such things as private citizens?
I was going to say extra range, but the 767-200 only goes 3900 nm compared to Gulfstream V 6500nm.
Boeing does sell Business Jet versions of 787 and 777 which have much longer ranges. And lots more space. Could fly half way around the world without stopping staying in your flying apartment.