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September 12, 2007

Google founders can fly jet out of Moffett

Mountain View Voice : Google founders can fly jet out of Moffett

NASA Ames released a statement Monday explaining why a Boeing 767, owned by Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, was seen on Moffett Field's runway last week.

Public affairs director Delores Beasley explained that under an agreement with the executives, the plane has been fitted with scientific equipment that allows NASA Ames to "regularly collect earth atmospheric and terrestrial observations" -- thereby allowing the plane to land at Moffett Field under provisions of a two-year lease.

NASA spokesperson Michael Mewhinney confirmed that the agreement allows the Google execs to "come and go as they please," and NASA researchers do not have to be on board. The plane will "operate out of" Moffett, Mewhinney wrote. According to some reports, the agreement also covers other planes owned by Page and Brin, including one or more Gulfstreams.

sweet deal

Posted by TY at September 12, 2007 10:39 AM

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