[CPEO-IRF] Private use of Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[More than ten years after residents of neighboring cities prevented the 
opening up of the runways of the former Moffett Naval Air Station to 
private use, the issue has resurfaced - LS]

Google jet part of Moffett deal

By Melanie Carroll
Palo Alto Daily News (CA)
September 12, 2007


A Boeing 767 owned by Google's co-founders and spotted flying out of 
Moffett Field last week is slated to be housed there under terms of a 
two-year lease agreement, NASA said Tuesday.

The jet took off for Spain last Wednesday morning from the Mountain View 
airstrip, which typically isn't available to private aircraft, according 
to NASA and Federal Aviation Administration records.

The Boeing 767 that belongs to Google co-founders and billionaires 
Sergey Brin and Larry Page can now fly into and out of Moffett Field 
because of an earth sciences-related agreement struck last month between 
NASA and a company called H211, LLC, space agency officials confirmed 
Tuesday. Brin and Page also are involved in H211, but NASA spokeswoman 
Dolores Beasley declined to say how. A Google search of H211 did not 
yield any information about the company.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-9-12-mv-google-jet


For background on the 1996 controversy see 
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/mofle.html
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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