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Planes of the Famed : Mogul's Edition The $40 million Paypal order, “hair” memo and other peccadilloes of the rich and jet-powered. By: David MossAugust/Sept 07 , Page 25 Mark Cuban - Gulfstream G550 Before upgrading to a G550, the Dallas Mavericks’ owner set a record in 1999 by buying a $40 million V on the Internet — the largest single e-commerce transaction at the time. Rupert Murdoch - Boeing Business Jet Creating and following 24-hour news cycles for a living can be daunting. Good thing the Aussie media giant’s jet comes equipped with DirecTV (a company Murdoch just unloaded to Liberty Media). Sergey Brin and Larry Page - Boeing 767 Forget seat belts. The Google founders planned on stringing up hammocks in their 767 — at least according to a miffed interior designer who blabbed to the press after they fired him from the job. Oprah Winfrey - Bombardier Global Express XRS Before procuring this swanky ride in 2006, Winfrey owned a Gulf- stream in which she once endured an emergency landing due to a cracked windshield. Donald Trump - Boeing 727 The real-estate mogul once called his book editor from his iconic black 727 (seen often on The Apprentice) to dictate a paragraph on the “art of the hair.”
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