[LINK] the google jet
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Jul 12 09:11:27 AEST 2006
At 05:04 PM 7/10/2006, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
><http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115222788536400097-i72SXBBTMX_EPvtfDIn9uNjtiss_20070707.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>
>Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Big Private Plane By KEVIN J.
>DELANEY July 7, 2006 ... Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the low-key
>co-founders of Google Inc., set tongues wagging last year when they
>bought a used Boeing 767 widebody as an unusually large private jet. ...
Perhaps Google is building a flying search engine, like a military
command and control aircraft <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-767>. ;-)
Google could then orbit a disaster scene supplying essential web
search
services
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/23/EDGDOILN5C1.DTL>.
The Australian Defence Department will have this capability with its
Wedgetail 737 aircraft when linked to ground mapping radar aircraft.
I have suggested linking it to smartphones during a disaster
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/jsf/>.
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