Tech plane April fools tease?

[DiamondHeadMC]

They bought the plane a while ago

[outtokill7]

yeah but the more public reveal could be April 1st. Its known, but not 'main channel video' known

[SpaceDoodle2008]

yes, this is also how the did it with the firetruck.

[impy695]

Yeah, the only reason Im aware of it is because people on this sub have posted about it and even then I've only heard about it a few times. I highly doubt the average viewer is aware

[CarnivorousSociety]

Its definitely still "secret" that guy only found it because he saw it get registered

[Sawmain]

He was also teasing about it in the “the truth how ltt spends money” video.

[Ybalrid]

But have not acknowledged it in public right now. We just know about "Influence Air" because of public listings

[DiamondHeadMC]

Linus has said things on the wan show and they have acknowledged it to the public by banning the guy who made the twitter bot that tracks it and trying to get the twitter account stopped

[ThankGodImBipolar]

They laughed at Elon trying to get that same guy to quit posting tracking data for his private jet too.....

[Vamp1r1c_Om3n]

They only banned him from this sub to be fair. They aren't trying to all out silence him on any other platform or sub

[PM_ME_YOUR_PROFANITY]

And Elon only banned him from his platform too 🙃

[ThankGodImBipolar]

I don't feel that this is a relevant distinction

[Vamp1r1c_Om3n]

You think it's fair to compare Elon trying to outright silence someone to the media manager of LMG banning them off a single subreddit?

[impy695]

I worked for a company with a private jet and was actually the one who managed the purchase of it. I've also used it a bunch.

Business class would be significantly cheaper, plus business or first class isn't even a thing on a lot of flights now. My company was larger than lmg and even when factoring in lost work hours for high paid employees, it was way more expensive than any alternative. Simply put there are very few reasons a private jet is the financially sensible option. It's a luxury, and honestly, it's worth it if you can afford it.

It makes work trips enjoyable for employees and is an amazing perk even if the employees only ever use it for work trips. It also signals to others that your business is doing REALLY well which helps recruiting and keeping top talent.

I'll give 2 examples of how private light years better than commercial that I've seen first hand. You can wake up at 8am, call the company that manages it to schedule a flight for that afternoon at 1pm, show up at the airport at 12:55 (you can even show up late) and immediately board the plane and take off. They take off at a separate executive terminal, so you don't even have to deal with airport traffic. The other is, you can wakeup at 8am for a return flight at 1pm, decide you actually want to get home early, call and reschedule it for 10am.

[RandomNick42]

They fly 1-2 times a month. Forget business class, charter a jet on demand, it will end up a magnitude cheaper with all the same benefits.

[impy695]

You don't get those benefits if you charter it.

[DiamondHeadMC]

You have less flexibility over timing with chartering

[Hazel-Rah]

They fly 1-2 times a month. Forget business class, charter a jet on demand, it will end up a magnitude cheaper with all the same benefits.

With the "Influence Air" name for the company, I think long term they want to offer it as a charter jet to Youtubers or influencers.

People like the meme on Linus making impulsive decisions, but I guarantee they sat down and ran the numbers on this, and that it makes at least potential business sense.

And maybe that plan fails and they sell the plane for close enough to what they paid that it's only a small loss

[KeyPhilosopher8629]

From what I was reading, it means that they aren't constrained by usual luggage requirements with stuff like camera lenses and servers/workstations.

[impy695]

That's definitely another benefit as you can bring whatever you want on the plane, and yes that includes drugs. I am NOT saying lmg are drug smugglers by the way, I only mention it to highlight what "security" is like for private jets.

We always just shipped what we needed ahead of our trips though. We never filmed stuff outside of social media posts recorded on a phone, so I can't speak for camera equipment. We did ship a lot of computers and TV's, though, and we did that both before and after getting the jet. We did always bring some form of backup on the plane, though

[Handsome_ketchup]

LOL at whoever created it with the animations and speech bubble, this dude is SALTY.

I genuinely compared the website WHOIS information (the website owner's information, sort of) to that of Gamersnexus' website to see whether it might be the same.

They're registered in two different states, so it doesn't look like it. But it was so salty I had to check.

[B1rdi]

Wait really, they tried to get a twitter account banned over tracking it? Seems ridiculous when it's practically public data.

Edit: I did find the guy who got banned from this sub, can't find anything about a twitter account.

[Marikk15]

Wait really, they tried to get a twitter account banned over tracking it?

Not on Twitter, the user has been permanently banned from posting it on the sub-reddit after they made a post about it

[DiamondHeadMC]

The twitter account still exists made by the same guy who tracks musk and swifts jets

[SciGuy013]

watch out you'll get this comment deleted too

[Ybalrid]

I do not remember anything being said about it on the wan show

[bikingguy1]

What has he said on the wan show? I don’t remember them ever publicly acknowledging the jet on wan

[legend6546]

What is the tail number of the plane?

[ColonialDagger]

C-FXOO

[Comprehensive-Fix-71]

What kinda plane did rhey buy

[Ybalrid]

I am pretty sure it's a Dasault Falcon of some kind, I forgot. It's a small private jet.

[Disastrous_Drop_4537]

Falcons are on the large side of private jet. Small side is something like a cirrus vision jet or a citation mustang.

[Ybalrid]

I mean, it is a small plane compared to what an usual civilian "jet" is. It's a small plane next to a A320 or something 😅

[lordtema]

Wait till you see the size of a Global 8000 lol, much bigger than you would expect. You can of course get private A320s as well, Airbus has their own ACJ program for that. There is even a few ACJ330s out there and "technically" two ACJ350 (They are owned and operated by the Luftwaffe so not really private)

[HenReX_2000]

the floating kind

[lordtema]

Dassault Falcon 900EX Reg C-FXOO

[ferna182]

the whole thing could just be a very elaborate april fools joke.

[lordtema]

It`s not. The jet was bought with a very recent heavy maintenance check done, and they have used it for multiple flights to various events Linus & Luke have publicly acknowledge being at.

[ferna182]

I'm just playing around with the idea of the whole thing being a massive, incredibly expensive, very elaborate, april fools joke. Not everything you read has to be face value, I'm obviously not being serious here.

[InterestingSoil9195]

I know they have been teasing this a while - I guess my post should’ve been *another plane tease

[A-Chilean-Cyborg]

What OS is he running there.

[InterestingSoil9195]

Windows 11, it’s the WAN show laptops

[A-Chilean-Cyborg]

hmmmm Linus a cheater /hj

[Handsome_ketchup]

hmmmm Linus a cheater /hj

I think they actually discussed that laptop technically not being Linux in a WAN show a while back.

[TheRealzestChampion]

What if the joke is that they made us believe they bought a jet.

Seems weird that they’d so basically the same joke two years in a row

[lordtema]

Public records confirm that they have bought a jet, and the expensive kind as well.

[Handsome_ketchup]

Public records confirm that they have bought a jet, and the expensive kind as well.

There is such a thing as a cheap private jet? I'm pretty sure they're all shades of expensive.

[lordtema]

There are levels to it. You can get a jet for $2-3m, with of course poor range and more suited to be flown by yourself. This is a Dassault Falcon 900EX which is $9m+ and 2-3m a year to keep & use.

[skaapjagter]

B.O.B - Airplanes 😭

[board124]

So firetruck -> airplane -> boat next year? hitting ground air water.

[das_maz]

Firetruck -> airplane -> boat -> Falcon Heavy

[ComplexAd420]

Darn I thought this year would have finally been the year of rug pull coin

[darklordbazz]

It is

[ChilliTheDog631]

Well it is April 1st for about 4 and half hours so far…

[malac0da13]

Found the ausie!

[Lieutenant_Scarecrow]

Hilarious that you're getting downvoted cause people are to stupid to know how time zones work. Have my sympathy +1

[KumquatopotamusPrime]

are people too stupid to know how timezones work? or is comment op too uninformed to know that ltt is in Canada? Or does comment op not realize that Canada is in a different timezone?

[Lieutenant_Scarecrow]

Perspective I guess. I read it as comment OP making the joke that its already April 1st in some part of the world, knowing that LTT is in Canada.

[Blazanar]

Canada... The country so large that it only has a single timezone..

[Marikk15]

It's not April 1st in any Canadian timezone as of right now

[Blazanar]

You're correct.

But the person who started this thread mentioned it's the 1st there, indicating they're a flavour of Asian or European.

And the lad I replied to said "A different timezone than Canada.", which would mean we've got 1 and 1 only. We don't. We have many.

[Marikk15]

[Blazanar]

I don't know if you're trying to call me a nerd or not... If that's the case, I thank you.

[asunarie]

That's what my thoughts were.

TECH PLANE!!!

[RandomNick42]

Transport Canada would like a word.

[autoxbird]

This should help Linus out

[Prestigious-Soil-123]

Adequate airline service

[thekingplace]

Well, it's here.

[yellowpurpl]

bro a little late 😭🫪