I knew the bastards of Airbus, would have talked.
Next time, I will buy a Boeing..

Hell with the initial cost, I want to know how much he'll have to pay in fuel...

You could pack a lot of coke in that.

Did images of an A380 crashing into a building come into anyones mind?

He got it because he gets Free gas for a year, and has a family... he had to get rid of his good old F-14 Tomcat!! Ah the good Old days when he rode into town to flirt with the ladies.

Do you have any idea how many children wouldn't starve to death with $400,000,000.00?

Instead of helping the world, this man buys an enormous aircraft that will have a significant impact to our fragile and priceless environment.

Saudi Oil prince. Thank you Mr Bush for perpetuating the Oil Standard.

we at Bahrain know this guy, he is our king, King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, a news already has been around for several months now with some newspapers from UK ( The Times )showing some pics of the planned interiour mod. a hidden picture of our king, sadly that hidden picture can be easly recognied, the newspaper didn't mentioned the name, but they said he is from the Gulf and he is a king, just comparing the picture with all kings in ME will give you the answer easly

from the news paper
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Why should they buy what they can steal/hijack? Just as effective, at a fraction of the cost. Plus it wastes the money of those from whom the plane is stolen, exacting even more damage.

Come on, 300 million could be spend on far more affective terrorist activities then buying a new plane to crash into a building.

No no, drug smuggling, has to be!!

.. is Sultan of Brunei.

...and he's probably going to use it as a mobile garage for all his beautiful cars.

seriously, The man is austin powers!!!. ya groovy man.....

Ill Take two :)

I thought they'd be a lot more expensive.

I say keep the damn thing in Paris where it belongs - can you say Osama ....... this sounds to me like something he could use for his next attack....something that large loaded with fuel could wipe out a city! What a waste of $$$.

Well all he needs is lots of room CHECK
Corruption from Eastern Europe will provide
stolen ammunition... to load up.
who said anything about landing the thing
Did they run a background check on him, naaa why he already paid. MONEY will keep everything HUSh

I can't help but find amusement in the comments about starving children, the "priceless environment," and Bush-hatred. A man bought a big plane...Big deal. Maybe he'll convert it into a luxury refugee camp and fly around rescuing penguins while exploring new energy sources for the world.

-Or maybe he'll just crash it into a building...pffffft. Yeah right. Get real, people.

...that all the bleeding heart liberals who opinion that this man should be feeding hungry children are all in a lower tax bracket? Of course you think he should have spent his three hundred million on world hunger, you can barely feed yourself. How about this... shut your pie hole. Go out in the world and DO SOMETHING instead of criticizing those of us who have... Then, you can donate your own three hundred million to world hunger or the plight of the flightless birds or whatever, but most importantly... stop whining.

However, I spend money for my own good instead of helping others. My money can not feed 10M kids but more than 10.....

I was gonna add on to what Scott said but I think he pretty much nailed it.

My hats off to Scott. The guy put a bullet in all of 'em "Do somethjing to the poor" people... Well, I don't understand how blind ya'll can be... I mean, you tell us, the people who work hard for the money they earn, to spend some for someone we barely know, when all you do is just talk about it... I'm standing right behind scott in this one... And oh yeah, nice buy for the rich guy... But someone else mentioned something about maintainence costs, which is what I wanted to point out as well...

If one takes all that money, buys food for the hungry and brings it to starving nations, the rulers will grab it, maybe say thanks and distribute a fraction of it to government supporters while selling the rest for arms. In those nations where there are poor without dictators, such as India, you will collapse the agriculture industry and increase the number of jobless and homeless. If this is some middle east oil baron he has probably done more for the poor by investing and outsourcing out of shear self-interest than all the free sacks of grain that have ever been distributed.

An A380 seems kind of conspicuous to smuggle drugs, especially since they are limited to large and more secure airports.

Similar objections apply to terrorism - This is definitely an ego thing. Big fat flying phallic symbol. Either that or someone has a lot of wives.

Man i wish i had enough money to buy completely overkill things. If it were me i would put a single chair in it and a prison style commode. Thats it. Hahaha. oh yeah a stewardess so when you ring the bell you can see her coming like a mile away. sweet.

Some people are so selfish that they prefer not to understand the meaning of helping a child from dying in order to protect their freedom to consume.(Which of course isn’t threatened)

If these people were to feel abandoned and in serious need for help, I’m sure they would be grateful if someone they didn’t know offered salvation.

With a custom jet that large, I guess one can take it with you. :)

I think it might be an oil shiek from the mid-east.

They built man made islands off the coast of Dubai (it would be cool to see them). I bet the sulton of Dubai could afford such a plane.

This man most likely did not "work hard" for his money. Chances are he is a king or prince. He was born into it. His family controls the oil, the demand is worldwide, and the system is already in effect. He just rakes it in and wastes it on frivilous things, because in his lifetime there will always be more. No one who "works hard" would blow $300 million on a private jet. No one reasonable.

"...instead of criticizing those of us who have."

Ha! Like you who have what?! 300 Pounds of blubber
hanging off your lard arses? Quickest way to Feed
The World is for just one of you Bleeding Brain Fascists to go on a diet! Or stop sucking off the Middle-East...

people get rich they buy things that are fast,compact,sleek not bloated out jumbo jets and I for one would like to know just what all he is going to do with some thing thaaaat biiiig

I don't care what this prince dude buys. For all I care, he can buy the spacestation and fly the shuttle full of naked chicks in for a space orgy.

As long as his activities do not cause any bodily harm or illegal, I do not see any problems.

HATE THE GAME..
Quit hating on people..
So what he bought a jet..
Feed the hungry,, well what are the so called liberals doing with your money? YOu cannot tell me that you have contributed any of your hard money to a overseas family in neeD?????
IF you are soo liberal, then you should not have this luxury item callled a computer, with internet access. is it a neccessity? noooo so you have mony to blow on a computer, yet we dont see you saying you contributed such and such to such and such...

To the guy who thinks that the plane was bought to be used to crash into a building...

Even a terrorist knows it sounds rediculous to pay $300 million for a plane just to crash it into a building...c'mon did you actually think about that before saying it?

"IF you are soo liberal, then you should not have this luxury item callled a computer, with internet access."

"...that all the bleeding heart liberals who opinion that this man should be feeding hungry children are all in a lower tax bracket"

Yep. In case you havent heard it's called moderation. No one is asking you to give up you're entire life just to "feed" poor people. I'm 20 and have done voluntary work for unicef. Apart from some of the travelling it only took two months of my life.In addition to a few donations it has cost me little else.

And rack off about the "lower" tax bracket. For real impoverished nations such as Ethiopia, things like tax bracket is about as relevant as you're bleating about how soft liberals are.

Scott, and to others who have expressed the same opinion, I'm not suppressing you're right to free speech, I will gladly defend you're right to express whatever you feel. I'm just arguing with you, which is healthy in a free democracy.

Rather than post/rant on this tg board. If you just want to lay out the insults ,email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Cheers
LN

Hell, he can afford NASA.

Isn't the first to buy the buggest plane in the world for no good purpose.

Did anyone think of airfarce 1?

Don't tell me the US president needs a 400 people plane for his campaign. Whoever bought the A380 is probably in a similar position as the US president... leader of a country and all such.

Damn hypocrit hicks

AF1 serves as a mobile command center in the event of a nuclear war. It has a more important role that someone's private jet.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the AF1 toy is needed as a super secure end safe mHQ when nuclear bombs start pounding the US main land... So your president will jump into an aiplane covered with 2.5mm thick aluminum to be protected from killer radiation.
He wouldn't use cheyenne mountain (or the washington DC version)
Also, This is clearly true since this super secret mHQ doesn't leave the country (since your nation would clearly be crippled without the AF1 there to lead the troops (in nuclear war?!?!))

Airfarce one is just an expensive publicity stunt, used by the US government to awe and impress foreign governments.
This A380 will probably be used by a silly rich man to awe and impress his silly rich friends... I don't really see a difference.

Being prepared for a war of such a scale at any place or time serves as deterrant for hostile nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_VC-25 wiki wiki, you're wrong.

Who's wrong about whaTt

I think boeing purchased the A380, so they can crash it an make Airbus look bad... ahaha