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ronnielsen1
October 25th, 2008, 10:04 AM
A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precisely a Dornier Alpha Jet. According to Wikipedia, the Alpha Jet is a a light jet attack and advanced trainer aircraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Jet) manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France.

Presumably no attacks on Microsoft are planned at this time

Now we're talking.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-for-googles-founders/

sethvath
October 25th, 2008, 10:19 AM
It is for the next google labs project, flight stimulation.

smoker
October 25th, 2008, 10:38 AM
hmm, looks like the start of a new arms race :)

redmond is ready, seems like 'windows cloud' is something else entirely:lolflag:

ronnielsen1
October 25th, 2008, 10:39 AM
Awww, so they're just going to simulate blowing up Microsoft? Just kidding. The simulation project seems interesting

3rdalbum
October 25th, 2008, 11:30 AM
It is for the next google labs project, flight stimulation.

Google Earth has its own flight simulator already, but it's hidden... I think the keyboard command is Control-Shift-A or something like that.

Also, this isn't actually a fighter jet, it's a trainer. Still, an impressive purchase.