US college student tracking Elon Musk’s jet doesn’t plan to stop


Jack Sweeney displays @elonjet on his phone. He programmed a Twitter account to automatically post the movements of a certain private jet, a Gulfstream G650ER. — TNS

CLERMONT: Here, where the Florida Citrus Tower offers panoramic views of big-box retailers and backyard pool cages built atop the former orange groves, the 19-year-old college student vexing the world’s richest man chose to meet at a Panera Bread. He dug into a bowl of macaroni and cheese.

His suburban hometown’s best quality, he said with no irony ― skipping right over the nearby wax museum featuring every US president — is the short drive to Orlando. But for a guy with Jack Sweeney’s interests, there is another advantage to Florida’s flyover country: proximity to one of the world’s busiest airports.

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