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02-16-2004, 11:23 PM | #1 |
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wana own a jet?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...fighter_sale_1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=%203078059896 NORFOLK, Va. - You can now have your very own Navy F/A-18A Hornet jet fighter — but some assembly may be required. The price for the jet, which formerly belonged to the Navy's Blue Angels aerial demonstration team, is just over $1 million on the auction firm eBay, or about $9 million for a buyer who wants it assembled, painted and certified ready-to-fly. Only legal U.S. residents can bid. The auction is scheduled to end Thursday. An F/A-18 in 1997 cost the military $28 million, according to the Blue Angels' official Web site. Mike Landa, of Landa and Associates, the Washington state brokerage that has listed the fighter on the Internet auction service, told The Virginian-Pilot that the jet is in parts and came out of military service in 1994. Landa wouldn't identify the owner, but said he came by it legally. "This thing obviously slipped through the system somehow," Landa said The FBI came out to visit Landa after he put the jet up for bidding. They wanted to know "what are you selling here," he said. "They wanted to have the scoop on it." Landa said he has no doubt that someone will surface to claim the Hornet. The jet's model can fly about 1,400 mph and climb 30,000 feet in a minute
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02-17-2004, 12:50 AM | #2 | |||
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dang whats someone gonna do with a friggin jet
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02-17-2004, 03:32 AM | #3 |
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Does it come with combat hardware? Lol.
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02-17-2004, 07:03 AM | #4 |
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inavlid item ? it looks like the govt pulled it off
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Would be fun but fuel will cost you more than the jet itself. |
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02-17-2004, 05:47 PM | #6 |
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if i had enough money to buy it i would just stick it in my front yard and look at it, cuz i mean its a fawking jet, who else has one privetly, and make all my neighbors wonder and would be a good chick magnet, who else gets to ask a girl if they want to come fly around in a jet.....
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02-17-2004, 06:01 PM | #7 |
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I'd disassemble it and strap the jet to back of my truck. Those things have...what...about 100,000hp per engine?
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02-17-2004, 06:41 PM | #8 | |
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lots of people actually... where I went to school there were these 3 older guys who had jets.. some kinda old russion trainer jets.. pretty cool. I also been looking into a kit plane similar to the coors silver bullet if you remember that one. |
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